SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
INFLUENCES ON PERCEPTION
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Prior learning is not essential to recognise pictures.
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People from all cultures interpret depth cues in similar ways.
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Formal education has no impact on our visual system but societal and cultural norms do.
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Formal education, cultural norms and expectations, and our visual systems influence depth cues.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Accumulating evidence suggests individuals in Western cultures tend to focus on individual and most salient elements of a scene (analytic attention) while individuals in East Asian cultures tend to focus on the relationship among objects in a scene (holistic attention) (see Nisbett and Miyamoto, 2005 for review).
Detailed explanation-2: -context, motivation, emotional state, culture and past experience. Context: refers to the setting or environment in which a perception is made.
Detailed explanation-3: -Within psychology, size constancy occurs when an observer is familiar with an object, so that the object appears to have a constant size when viewed from various distances. For example, people are familiar with doors, so they are perceived to have a constant size regardless of the distance observed from.
Detailed explanation-4: -Biological ageing can affect our visual perception system, including the development of presbyopia, floaters, cataracts, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration .