Within stereotypes, objects or people are as similar to each other as possible. While our tendency to group stimuli together helps us to organize our sensations quickly and efficiently, it can also lead to misguided perceptions.
Stereotypes become dangerous when they no longer reflect reality, or when they attribute certain characteristics to entire groups. They can contribute to bias, discriminatory behavior, and oppression. Interpretation, the final stage of perception, is the subjective process through which we represent and understand stimuli. In the interpretation stage of perception, we attach meaning to stimuli. Each stimulus or group of stimuli can be interpreted in many different ways. Interpretation refers to the process by which we represent and understand stimuli that affect us.
Our interpretations are subjective and based on personal factors. It is in this final stage of the perception process that individuals most directly display their subjective views of the world around them.
Cultural values, needs, beliefs, experiences, expectations, involvement, self-concept, and other personal influences all have tremendous bearing on how we interpret stimuli in our environment. Prior experience plays a major role in the way a person interprets stimuli. For example, an individual who has experienced abuse might see someone raise their hand and flinch, expecting to be hit. That is their interpretation of the stimulus a raised hand.
Someone who has not experienced abuse but has played sports, however, might see this stimulus as a signal for a high five. Different individuals react differently to the same stimuli, depending on their prior experience of that stimuli. Culture provides structure, guidelines, expectations, and rules to help people understand and interpret behaviors.
Ethnographic studies suggest there are cultural differences in social understanding, interpretation, and response to behavior and emotion. Cultural scripts dictate how positive and negative stimuli should be interpreted. Another example is that Eastern cultures typically perceive successes as being arrived at by a group effort, while Western cultures like to attribute successes to individuals.
In one experiment, students were allocated to pleasant or unpleasant tasks by a computer. They were told that either a number or a letter would flash on the screen to say whether they were going to taste orange juice or an unpleasant-tasting health drink.
In fact, an ambiguous figure stimulus was flashed on screen, which could either be read as the letter B or the number 13 interpretation. When the letters were associated with the pleasant task, subjects were more likely to perceive a letter B, and when letters were associated with the unpleasant task they tended to perceive a number Similarly, a classic psychological experiment showed slower reaction times and less accurate answers when a deck of playing cards reversed the color of the suit symbol for some cards e.
This term describes the collection of beliefs people have about themselves, including elements such as intelligence, gender roles, sexuality, racial identity, and many others. If I believe myself to be an attractive person, I might interpret stares from strangers stimulus as admiration interpretation. However, if I believe that I am unattractive, I might interpret those same stares as negative judgments.
Perceptual constancy is perceiving objects as having constant shape, size, and color regardless of changes in perspective, distance, and lighting. When you walk away from an object, have you noticed how the object gets smaller in your visual field, yet you know that it actually has not changed in size? Perceptual constancy is the tendency to see familiar objects as having standard shape, size, color, or location, regardless of changes in the angle of perspective, distance, or lighting.
The impression tends to conform to the object as it is assumed to be, rather than to the actual stimulus presented to the eye. Perceptual constancy is responsible for the ability to identify objects under various conditions by taking these conditions into account during mental reconstitution of the image.
Even though the retinal image of a receding automobile shrinks in size, a person with normal experience perceives the size of the object to remain constant. One of the most impressive features of perception is the tendency of objects to appear stable despite their continually changing features: we have stable perceptions despite unstable stimuli. Such matches between the object as it is perceived and the object as it is understood to actually exist are called perceptual constancies. There are many common visual and perceptual constancies that we experience during the perception process.
The perception of the image is still based upon the actual size of the perceptual characteristics. The visual perception of size constancy has given rise to many optical illusions. The Ponzo illusion : This famous optical illusion uses size constancy to trick us into thinking the top yellow line is longer than the bottom; they are actually the exact same length.
Or, perhaps more accurately, the actual shape of the object is sensed by the eye as changing but then perceived by the brain as the same. This happens when we watch a door open: the actual image on our retinas is different each time the door swings in either direction, but we perceive it as being the same door made of the same shapes. Shape constancy : This form of perceptual constancy allows us to perceive that the door is made of the same shapes despite different images being delivered to our retinae.
This refers to the relationship between apparent distance and physical distance. An example of this illusion in daily life is the moon. When it is near the horizon, it is perceived as closer to Earth than when it is directly overhead. This is a feature of the human color perception system that ensures that the color of an object remains similar under varying conditions.
Consider the shade illusion: our perception of how colors are affected by bright light versus shade causes us to perceive the two squares as different colors.
In fact, they are the same exact shade of gray. Checker-shadow illusion : Color constancy tricks our brains into seeing squares A and B as two different colors; however, they are the exact same shade of gray. Our ears do the job as well. In music, we can identify a guitar as a guitar throughout a song, even when its timbre, pitch, loudness, or environment change. This is thanks to auditory perceptual constancy! Privacy Policy. Skip to main content.
Sensation and Perception. Search for:. Introduction to Perception. Introducing the Perception Process Perception is the set of unconscious processes we undergo to make sense of the stimuli and sensations we encounter. Learning Objectives Outline the stages of the perception process.
Our perceptions are based on how we interpret different sensations. Not all processing units will be employed in processing a task. The specific processing units employed can change depending on task requirements. The processing units implement algorithms designed to re-parameterize input to a categorical output space.
Each processing unit contains certain default inputs or receives input of the previous processing cycle in the same schema format. A re-parameterization engine organizes the new visual information. The processing unit then outputs an updated schema and parameter adjustments for the next processing cycle. The processing engine [] interact with the perceptual schemas to obtain data to perform their specific functions and to update the values stored in the schemas. The perceptual schemas are constructed with data derived from perceptual organization, psychophysics, and human category data obtained through psychological survey methods such as typicality measurements, relative category ordinate designation, perceptual prototype, etc.
The schema and processing units employ fuzzy variables, which are linguistic variables that substitute graded membership for crisp numeric values. The processing engine [] employ the fuzzy inference system to process and update schema values. The use of fuzzy logic circumvent conventional requirements for precise measurements. Viewed as a network, each processing unit corresponds to a node.
Fuzzy inference system is employed to apply heuristics to interpret the query. The overall pattern of node activity represents both visual knowledge and perceptual hypothesis. The node outputs modify schema values and processor parameters such that the processing loop resets the parameters for the next processing cycle in a context dependent manner, enabling local processing decisions based on previous visual input, visual knowledge, and global context.
At the completion of each processing cycle, the comparator [] compare the schema values to predefined completion criteria for the task and direct the system to either continue processing with updated parameters or to produce the image descriptor for the digital image accordingly. The image descriptor encodes the visual properties and their corresponding pixel location, sub-image designation, and ordinate position within the perceptual schema. The image descriptor may be described with an Extensible Markup Language XML document to allow easy data exchange and facilitate application transparency and portability.
After being processed by the pre-processors [] , the image matrix is passed to the processing engine Each processing unit within the processing engine consists of algorithms to perform a specific function. Each processing unit is associated with a schema that defines the elements and attributes used to process the image matrix in that unit. The processing units provide feedback to the system by adjusting the schema values and parameters. According to this example, the image matrix [] is first processed by the Colors processing unit , which re-parameterizes the image matrix into prototypical color space that corresponds to fuzzy sets within the English color name universe of discourse.
Linguistic variables are used to denote the graded memberships for the prototypical color associated with each pixel. The output from the Colors processing unit is processed by the Derived Colors processing unit which re-parameterizes colors to derived colors. Both processing units map to the universe of discourse representing human color names, yet designate different sets. The output from both the Colors processing unit [] and the Derived Colors processing unit serve as input to the perceptual organization processing units, such as the Color Constancy processing unit , which in turn feeds the Grouping processing-unit The output from the Grouping processing unit in turn feeds the Symmetry processing unit as well as the Centering processing unit The output from the Centering processing unit in turn feeds the Spatial processing Each processing unit described contribute to parameter adjustments, which is used by the comparator [] to direct processing cycle.
For instance, the Color Constancy processing unit alters transduction parameters for highly saturated pixels belonging to a single color prototype. This has the effect of decreasing the threshold sensitivity of the filters for the corresponding pixels in the next processing cycle as described in FIG. In this manner, high-level contextual information such as Color Constancy adjusts local low-level processing, implementing both the time and context causality of the system.
At each step, the processing unit interacts with the schema to obtain values for processing and to update the schema for the next processing unit. The specific processing units employed during each processing cycle as well as the sequence of processing may change depending on task requirements. At the completion of the processing cycle, the system produces an image descriptor [] which describe the image based on perceptual organization.
The image descriptor may be translated into other formats such as ASCII, XML, or proprietary formats for use in image indexing, image categorization, image searching, image manipulation, image recognition, etc. The processing parameters [] is predefined with default values at the beginning of processing.
Each processing unit within the processing engine performs a function and returns a parameter adjustment. At the end of a processing cycle the comparator updates the parameter with adjustments. These adjusted parameters are then used in the next processing cycle. In this manner, the system implements a context dependent processing strategy. The lightness gradient patch provides an example of the perceptual phenomenon of lightness constancy. As the system iteratively process an image, the Lightness Constancy processing unit updates the processing parameters such that the filters processing pixels in the dark regions [] are more sensitive, and the filters processing pixels in the light regions are less sensitive.
The parameter adaptation is illustrated by the shift in transduction shown in the figure. Again, this provides an example of context dependent causality. The digital image [] contains crisp numeric values which are manipulated by the pre-processors described above. Low level processing map these numeric variables to appropriate sensory fuzzy linguistic variables.
Mid-level processing implement the Gestalt psychology principle of the sum of the sensory variables is larger than its parts. High-level processing accepts perceptually organized concept variables and return category variables which in turn form the basis for Artificial Intelligence A.
The processing path is not fixed. High-level processing units may accept input from low-level and mid-level processing units. High-level processing units, which process global context, however, may only affect low-level processing units through adaptive parameter adjustments in the next processing cycle.
The low level processing units [] correspond to low level human visual processes such as recognition of colors and spatial relationships among objects; the mid level processing units correspond to mid level human visual processes such as recognition of figures vs. The system also supports the expert level processing units which correspond to human visual processes for very specific task such as medical image analysis or satellite image processing.
For example, the Colors [] , Color Constancy , and Grouping processing units form a schema, which is subordinate to the system schema.
In this case, the Grouping processing unit is super-ordinate to the Colors and Color Constancy processing units which are both units of the primary level. The schemas follows human ordinate structure. Through the relative order of processing, the present invention designate a new ordinate structure that is used to label visual information. The color temperatures warm and cold processed by the Colors processing unit are super-ordinate variables.
The red, yellow, white, green, blue, and black are primaries. This schema matches the human color category structure as found in an anthropological study by B. Berlin and P. Kay This FIG. The query denoted []. In this embodiment of the present invention, the perceptual schema constrains the answer sets, and a composite system implements the hierarchical nature of the system.
A composite question space operates on all possible answer sets subordinate to it in the schema [5]. The vertical dimension indicates processing depth. As processing depth increases, the tags and tag level move from low-level to mid-level to high-level and finally to object recognition. The image descriptor index uniquely defines the processing path taken to arrive at a particular tag.
These primaries can be immediately understood, by any human. Subordinate data, used by the processing modules, correspond to processing not readily available to humans on a conscious level in other words, any human could point out primary visual elements—if asked—but they may not be able to point out the subordinate information such as spatial frequency components.
This application allows the user to extract visual information from images and manipulate them as variables with simple commands and equations. Row 1 demonstrates command syntax. As psychology emerged as a science separate from philosophy , researchers became interested in understanding how different aspects of perception worked, particularly the perception of color.
In addition to understanding the basic physiological processes that occur, psychologists were also interested in understanding how the mind interprets and organizes these perceptions. The Gestalt psychologists proposed a holistic approach, suggesting that the sum equals more than the sum of its parts. Cognitive psychologists have also worked to understand how motivations and expectations can play a role in the process of perception.
Today, researchers also work to investigate perception on the neural level and look at how injury, conditions, and substances might affect perception. Ever wonder what your personality type means? Sign up to find out more in our Healthy Mind newsletter.
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