Learning Objectives

  • Define the process of perception
     
  • Explain the Gestalt approaches to perception
     
  • Distinguish among the various types of bottom-up processes
     
  • Differentiate among the different types of top-down processes
     
  • Describe how the phenomenon of composite faces is used to understand the process of face perception
     
  • Summarize the view of direct perception
     
  • Compare and contrast the types of visual agnosias