Here is the lecture outline which indicates what aspects of the chapter to focus on for the exam. date: 31/1/2013

1. TOPICS FOR STUDY: Perception
TEXTBOOK: Hilgard & Atkinson’s Introduction to Psychology (15th Edition)
TEXT PAGES: 151-197 (Chapter 5)
1. What is perception?
- Model of the environment
- Five functions of perception
2. Attention
- What is meant Selective Attention?
- What is the phenomena of change blindness?
3. Localization
- By what perceptual principles are objects separated and grouped?
- How do we perceive distance? Which are the common monocular and binocular
depth cues?
4. Recognition
- What is meant by the binding problem?
- How do we determine what an object is? (simple cells, complex cells, hypercomplex
cells)
- What is meant by top-down and bottom-up processes in perception?
- Which three pieces of evidence suggest special perceptual processing of socially
relevant stimuli such as faces?
5. Abstraction

2. - What are the advantages of abstraction?
6. Perceptual Constancies
- What is meant by size constancy, shape constancy, color and brightness constancy?
7. Perception and the Brain
- Where is the Visual Cortex?
- Recognition versus Localization systems
8. Perceptual Development
- Methods of investigation perception in children (preferential looking, habituation)
- What can one conclude about the development of perceptual abilities from
controlled stimulation studies?