8.5 Making sense of what we see

Question 1

Other than development of the visual cortex, what does vision perception also involve?

Answer 1

knowledge and experience

Question 2

for depth perception of close objects, what do we depend on to perceive them?

Answer 2

the presence of cells in the visual cortex that obtain information from both eyes at once or ‘stereoscopic vision’

Question 3

for distance objects, what do we depend on to perceive them?

Answer 3

visual cues and past experiences

Question 4

what does the carpentered world hypothesis state?

Answer 4

those who live in a world dominated by straight lines and rights angles perceive depth cues differently to those who live in a circular culture

Question 5

what is poor contour detection linked to?

Answer 5

higher retinal pigmentation

Question 6

why do young children struggle to perceive pictures as 3D?

Answer 6

the depth cues in pictures are not innate and are learned

Question 7

what proved that some depth perception is innate?

Answer 7

the visual cliff experiment