In: Psychology
Understand the idea of “direct” versus “indirect” perception, and why perception is indirect, not direct Implication of the blind spot for perception?
Why are illusions interesting to cognitive psychologists?
Perception is the way of percieving the world.Perception is subjective in nature as each individual percieve differently accroding to their ideas,attitudes and beliefs.Perception is indirect.Indirect Perception is the perception which along with needing to learn has to go beyond as what is available to senses.Some sort of choice is made between alterative interpretation of the stimulus.A person who is thinking has to percieve the thing not directly but by going beyond with the interprretattion of stimulus.
Blind Spot perception-In order to complete the prevailing pattern in the region.The bottom stimulus reveals that the brain implements the expectations of object continuity. For eg-Perception of Size,Closer,Proximity,Etc
Illusions are misinterpretation occuring in several grounds.Illusion can be fun and interesting but it is also used by the cognitive psychologists in the research.Eg To assess someone's way of thinking,his attitude,beliefs could be monitor by assessing his illusions.