Visual Perception

Term Paper # 104424

Biology
Film
Psychology

Visual Perception

This paper discusses perceptual principles with reference to the film "Yellow Submarine".

1,681 words () | 4 sources | APA | 2008 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper explains that sensory information is organized and interpreted by perceptual processes. The paper discusses how a study of visual perceptual processes is crucial in the comprehension of how people understand and interact with their environments. The paper then looks at perceptual principles of relative size and relative height and examines how the film "Yellow Submarine" demonstrates correct and incorrect usage of these cues through its variety of visual displays.

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"Sensation refers to the process by which the nervous system receives and represents incoming stimulus energy while perception is the organization and interpretation of this energy into meaningful units. Perception takes the sensory information to a new level, incorporating top-down knowledge with the incoming information from the receptors to give environmental information and assist actions within the environment. Visual perception can be described perfectly by the statement "There is more to life than what meets the eye." When light, the stimulus for vision, enters the eye, the retina contains photoreceptors that receive this information and transmit it down a chain that eventually leads to the primary visual cortex. Along the way, this information is interpreted and changed in such a way that what hits the photoreceptors is not necessarily what is seen. "

Sample of Sources Used:

Brodax, A. (Producer), & Dunning, G. (Director). (1968). Yellow Submarine [Motion picture].United Kingdom: Subafilms LTD.
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Olson, R. K. & Boswell, S. L. (1976). Pictorial depth sensitivity in two-year-old children. Child Development, 47, 1175-1178.
Wolfe, J. M., Kluender, K. R., Levi, D. M., Bartoshuk, L. M., Herz, R. S., Klatzky, R. L., et al. (2006). Sensation and perception. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.