Compare and Contrast Gibson’s and Gregory’s theories of perception

The human brain is capable of perceiving and interpreting information or stimuli received through the sense organs (i.e., eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin) (Weiten, 1998). This ability to perceive and interpret stimulus allows the human being to make meaningful sense of the world and environment around them. However, even as the human being is able to perceive and interpret stimuli information through all sense organs, stimuli is most often or primarily interpreted using the visual (eyes) and auditory (ears) sense organs (Anderson, 2009). However, for the purpose of this paper, the visual information process will be examined.

A relatively famous, but unattributed quote is, “Perception is Reality.” Do you agree with this? What implications does this concept have on managing others? View the short video posted and comment on the impact of perception and presentation. How might this impact the way in which managers present tasks/rewards, etc. to subordinates?

As vital organ of vision, the eye, allows us to learn more about the world around us more than any other organ or senses. Sight, the physical sensory experience and vision, the metaphysical concept of how our brain interprets images both work harmoniously and play a huge role in our everyday lives. However, almost a billion people are either blind or visually impaired simply due to not having a pair of glasses. Being able to lead people in the direction of good vision is what developed my interests.

Gibson disagrees with Gregory's theory, Gibson, in his theory describes perception as being all direct, he doesn't think that there is any need to use prior knowledge to make sense of things that we look at. Gibson argued that the cognitive input theories of perception, which stated that perception depended on prior knowledge, were only relevant for artificial laboratory situations where the available stimuli was very limited. Naturally, in those situations people would have to use guesswork or prior information to work out what they were looking at. But in everyday life, Gibson argued, there is more than enough information available to us in the optic array

The novel “Tangerine”, written by Edward Bloor, is a realistic-fiction novel that focuses on the motif of sight, and how what’s on the surface isn’t the same as what’s beneath. The motif of sight plays the part of showing that just because someone has glasses doesn’t mean that they can’t see, but they can sometimes see better than other people. Through the motif of sight, Paul, the main character, has a growing understanding of his friends, his family, and himself.

Humans have a unique and wonderful device in how one sees. The eye and brain work together to turn the world into visual data one’s brain can understand and use. There are some eye conditions that inhibit the sight or the recognition of the shapes one sees. Research continues to overcome these conditions as well as to further understand the biochemical reaction that gives humans the sight and understanding one has of visual data. Included in the paper are some of the latest research methods.

Among those in support of the claim that change blindness and inattentional blindness reveal a grand illusion of visual perception, Cohen identifies three interpretations of the illusory beliefs in which the grand illusion is understood: world richness, representational richness, and representational reality. Although Cohen forms arguments against each interpretation of illusory beliefs, as stated earlier, this paper will focus on the idea of the grand illusion in regards to the illusory belief of representational

However if a person is able to know his surroundings and is able to create a visual imagery, the earlier accepted meaning for “seeing” seems quite misleading. What better way would there be than to take an example of a blind person. Zoltan Torey, was one of Sacks’ case study, did things that Sacks says might be impossible for a blind man. Torey who had been blinded later in his life was eventually able to perform intricate tasks with ease. Sacks says that Torey is able to construct, “a virtual visual world that seemed as real and intense to him as the perceptual one he had lost-indeed, sometimes more real and intense” (332).

CART Major Assessment Eyes are the medium where one’s visions conjoin with reality. When I think of the image of eyes, the first word that comes to my mind is vision. What our eyes see and what we envision have many commonalities, yet they are different. The acknowledgement of this truth first occurred to me in the third grade when I received my first pair of glasses. The world begun to lose its clarity however, I had not yet noticed.

Neurons are responsible primarily for their intended sense. However, neurons can sometimes be bimodal, meaning that they respond to two different senses. Primary sensory areas contain neurons that respond to only one sense. However, some primary sensory areas have outlier senses, and is not exclusive. Perception is defined as the brain’s interpretation of sensory information. However, that’s not all, since expectations also play a role in how the brain perceives the world. Therefore, it can be said that perception is a combination of sensory information and expectation. Helmholtz stated that previous experiences act in conjunction with present sensations to produce a perceptual image. Expectation dominates perception when there is

To illustrate the idea of how one can judge instantaneously through perception, visualize this. Picture a sixteen year old, white male at a gas station, standing next to his car, pumping gas into the car’s tank. He dreaded standing out there for the reason that it was dark outside and he would get sudden chills down his spine. His hands were dry, making it difficult to maintain a grip on the pump. Constantly having to pat his hands onto his numb face, the thought of bright flames soothed him. Regardless of the sound of the few passing cars, he could still hear the chirping of crickets. For each chirp, he became more anxious at the fact that once he would arrive at his house, he would be scolded by his parents. His eyesight was drifting away slowly with the slow fluttering of his eyelids until he was rudely awaken by a suspicious figure at the corner of his eye. The man, covered from head

The articles that I read discussed Social Perception. Social Perception was described as interpreting information about other people. If you feel that you are familiar with a person, you perceive to have a better understanding of that person intention. The pattern of thinking can affect a person’s perception of others. The social contexts, in which you meet someone, can play a

William Molyneux was an Irish scientist and politician with an interest in optics. During his first year in marriage his wife, Anne, became sick and went blind. This caused him question some of the most basic concepts in optics that have led to even current studies. William began to formulate a question about whether blind people were capable of recognizing objects without touching them if they happened to regain their sight back. “Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal and roughly of the same size, so as to tell when he felt each of them which is the cube and which the sphere. Suppose then the cube and sphere placed on a table, and the blind man made to see. Could he, by his sight before he touched them, tell which is the globe and which the cube?” William

Sigmund Freud coined the term “agnosia” which means “without knowledge” and although the term stands today, it is now known that those with agnosia actually have knowledge of what they are seeing but do not have the ability to connect perception to knowledge. As Marotta and Behrmann observed in two case studies, those with visual agnosia are able to identify and recognize object through sound, touch or a description of function or appearance (Marotta & Behrmann, 2002; Coslett, 2007), proving that knowledge of the object is present.