Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
2. Structuralism
3. Gestaltism
4. Ecological Optics
5. Constructivism
Part 1
Classical Theories
of
Perception
What is Science?
Some Criteria That Guide Science
1. Generalizability
2. Originality
3. Precision
What is Science?
Some Goals of Science.
1. Description
2. Prediction
3. Causation
4. Application
Classical Theories of Perception
Structuralism
Structuralism
Wilhelm Wundt
Structuralism
• Structuralism’s one liner:
– The whole is equal to the sum of the parts.
Gestaltism
Gestaltism
Max Wertheimer
Gestaltism
• If you had to briefly summarize the gestalt
approach, what would be a good ‘one liner’?
Ecological Optics
Ecological Optics
J.J. Gibson
Ecological Optics
• One liner for the ecological approach to perception -
Perception is for ACTION!
• Eye’s are pricey, metabolically.
• Eye’s evolved to help organisms MOVE!!!
• “Get out of your (contrived) lab. Measure perception in the real world, where it
evolved!”
Constructivism
Constructivism
Hermann Von Helmholz