Essays Tagged: "Visual perception"

Sense Experience

d possibility that this person is suffering from any of the numerous possible sensations, auditory, visual or tactile, experienced without external stimulus and caused by mental derangement, intoxicat ... a person takes the drug LSD, this drug is one which alters the state of the mind and tricks it into visually perceiving things which are not real such as pink elephants, green rats, gold skin and so o ...

(2 pages) 104 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Evaluation on "Private Lives" by Noel Coward, refering to the elements of drama.

ign at the top of the wall which had the French name of the hotel. I think this gave the audience a visual perception of the location other wise the may have not understood. On the balcony there were ... three piece suit, and Sibyl and her frumpy skirt and jacket. To me the couples just don't match up visually.Sibyl goes off to have a bath and Victor goes and gets changed which left Amanda and victor ...

(9 pages) 32 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Sight by Jan Brueghel and Peter Paul Rubens

art and wonder, like a walkthrough a long gallery flooded by sunlight, Sight stimulates the mind's visual perception with its animated images and intellectual aura.Many are unaware that this masterpi ... e charisma of the images is undoubtedly present, yet so subtly elusive to the painting's meaning of visual aestheticism. Initially, it seems there is so space in this painting, but beyond the crowded ...

(3 pages) 51 1 3.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

How can visual illusions help us to understand lower and higher level process in visual perception?

How can visual illusions help us to understand lower and higher level process in visual perception?A visual ... ceive differs from what we suppose to be correct. As Nicholas et al. (2001) note that the idea of a visual illusion presupposes that the object or pattern concerned would be different under other cond ... ther conditions. One view of illusions is that they can be used as tools to probe the mechanisms of visual perception, because perceptual errors give us clues about the way in which normal perception ...

(8 pages) 212 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Sensation & Perception

Science, How is an eye like a camera?

"accommodate" or change focus. Your eye can focus on up to 100,000 different distinct points in the visual field. In general the eyes of all animals are similar to simple cameras in that the lens of t ...

(2 pages) 21 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

The Philosophy of Visual Disability

ation bears no physical traits that bears not a being, much the same as the paradoxical question of visual disability: a metaphysical idiom with a physical configuration that is, however, open to misc ... ch selfsame carpet the efficacious spearheads for the reclamation of the birthright of persons with visual disability lies ensnared, grimed with the ignorance, intolerance and indifference of man. Bet ...

(22 pages) 46 0 4.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Tools and Techniques

Visualization can be used in many aspects of an organization; the author's example is from personal ... th a difficult situation there are several decision-making tools or techniques that one can employ. Visualizing is a technique that breaks through narrow thinking by tapping into ones creativity calli ... r is to define decision-making tools and techniques. This paper will define a decision-making tool, visualizing, and explain its application as well as when and when not to use this tool. Throughout t ...

(3 pages) 150 0 5.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Perception

ch clearly at night than we would. Our abilities may also alter the way in which we perceive things.Visual Perceptiona) Object Recognition- In the process of visual perception, our senses usually look ... me shape, features, color, and sound. In this example, hearing is involved which aids the brain its visual perception.b) Unconscious inference- According to Hermann Helmholtz, visual perception may be ...

(7 pages) 317 0 2.5 Sep/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Sensation & Perception

The Philosophy of Visual Disability

The Philosophy of Visual DisabilityPreamble:The greatest expression of the ultimate timeless civilisation of mankind, ... ation bears no physical traits that bears not a being, much the same as the paradoxical question of visual disability: a metaphysical idiom with a physical configuration that is, however, open to misc ... ch selfsame carpet the efficacious spearheads for the reclamation of the birthright of persons with visual disability lies ensnared, grimed with the ignorance, intolerance and indifference of man. Bet ...

(22 pages) 70 0 4.5 Sep/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Visual Impairment

IntroductionDown's Syndrome Vision Research Group defines Visual impairment as a reduction in vision because of a disorder or disease of the eye or brain. A p ... ction in vision because of a disorder or disease of the eye or brain. A person is considered to be "visually impaired" when their visual acuity is 20/70 or less in the better eye with best correction, ... ye. Having 20/70 vision means that a person can see an object or symbol at 20 feet away while a non-visually impaired individual can see that same object or symbol 70 feet away.Students with visual im ...

(9 pages) 39 1 3.5 Apr/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Gestalt Theory

atement "˜The whole is Greater than its parts' was used by several German psychologists using visual perception to describe the way people view patterns in nature. They discovered that we tend t ...

(3 pages) 75 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Images In Mass Communication

of the channels of communication to more effectively get the message across to the receiver. Visual perception of an object sometimes serves as the best way to perceive that object. When this i ...

(3 pages) 13 0 5.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Are colours objective or subjective, both?

Eleanor McHardie PHIL1007 Second Assessment TaskAre colours objective or subjective, or both?Our visual perception of the world contains colours. Our understanding of colour is related to other fac ... lour does not exist. This can be understood in two ways. The first is that colour is related to our visual system, part of our eyes and our brains. Common sense, (1), plays no part in this explanation ...

(8 pages) 22 0 3.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Perceptions

There are quite a few things that have an influence on my perceptions. I think the biggest one of all comes from one of my five basic senses. This sense is my ... either hiding something or not being honest.'" (Guest Lecture from Pauline Shirley, "What Fuels Our Perceptions? ") She says in the lecture that she did some research on body language and learned that ... h their noses are not being honest about something. This proves my opinion on sight being an aid in perception. As I stated before, your eyes do not lie.Though I stated that my sense of sight is my st ...

(2 pages) 15 0 4.3 Jan/2008

Subjects: Art Essays

Psychology-Dreams

re more perceptual than conceptual: things are seen and heard rather than being subject to thought. Visual perception is present in almost all dreams, and auditory experience is 40 to 50%, but dreams ... present in almost all dreams, and auditory experience is 40 to 50%, but dreams are not necessarily visual imagery. Congenitally blind people dream in auditory and sensory-motor modes. One difference ...

(8 pages) 65 0 2.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Vision

always considered light an essential element of existence.Vision, on a purely sensual plane, is the perception of such light. Radiating from a primary source and reflecting off opaque surfaces, rays a ... ped the sun. Is light a profound substance, as previously discussed, but self-fulfillment relies on perception of this light; it relies on vision.Darkness is the perfect antagonist to light. It is an ...

(2 pages) 17 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

"Umbrellas" by Christo and Jeanne-Claudby

thinking when they created this work, but I have an idea. I think that they were thinking about the visual perception of art. What do people view art as, is the question they were thinking about? They ...

(2 pages) 15 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Is seeing the same as believing?

motional and motivational states, together with expectation and culture, could influence one’s visual perception. In addition, our perception makes us believe thing that are not really there when ...

(3 pages) 25 0 0.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Perception Essay

Emily EarithPerceptionExtra CreditSimple Task with Eyes ClosedIt is quite difficult to brush your teeth without ... constant, it is an impossible task to achieve. The two cannot possibly be compared. Without vision, perception more so tactual perception then becomes distorted and inaccurate ("Bartley - Vision Casua ...

(4 pages) 3 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Sensation & Perception