Role of sensation and perception in cognition

'higher' mental processes

'physiological' process

process by which we 'analyse'

A physiological process involving sensory receptors detecting and responding to the presence of stimuli. Anything which is experienced through the senses.

The mental process of organizing and interpreting sensory stimuli sent form the senses so it achieves a meaningful form.

Figure ground, closure, similarity and proximity

Figure ground, closure, distance and proximity

Past experiences, context, motivation/emotional state, culture, suggestion and instruction

Whether one attends with divided or selective attention

A visual illusion in which two lines of equal length – one capped with inward pointing arrowheads, the other capped with outward pointing arrowheads ar perceived as being different lengths.

An illusion caused by an intentionally disorted room, viewed through a peephole, disrupting perceptual constancies and misleading the viewer to perceive people changing size (Shrinking or growing) as they cross the floor from one corner of the room to the corner diagonally opposite​.

An illusion where two horizontal lines of equal length are drawn inside two converging lines, but the line in the narrower section of the converging lines.