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Attention and Perceptual Organisation
Psychology · Chapter 6 · 3. Attention and Perception
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- Nature of attention; outer (physical) determinants: size, colour, movement, change, intensity, contrast
- Inner (psychological) determinants: need, interest and emotion; importance of attention in perception
- Sensation versus perception; transforming sensation into perception
- Figure and ground; laws of grouping: similarity, proximity, continuity, simplicity and closure
- Perceptual constancies of size, shape, colour and brightness