The Resource Library: Perception: Theory, Development and Organisation

✍ Scribed by Paul Rookes, Jane Willson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 144
• Series: Routledge Modular Psychology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Paul Rookes and Jane Willson explain perception and perceptual processes in a way that almost anyone can understand. The study of perception, or how the brain processes information from the senses , has fascinated psychologists and philosophers for a long time. Perception takes the key research areas and presents the arguments and findings in a clear, concise form, enabling the reader to have a quick working knowledge of the area. This clear and informative text discusses sensation and perception then looks at theories and explanations of perception. The way visual perception is structured is examined, followed by an analysis of the development of perceptual processes. The authors then consider individual social and cultural variations in perceptual organisation. Perception will be particularly useful to students new to higher-level study. With its helpful textbook features to assist in examination and learning techniques, it should interest all introductory psychology students.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1 Introduction to perception......Page 16
2 Theories and explanations of perception......Page 27
3 Perceptual organisation......Page 51
4 Perceptual development......Page 82
5 Individual social and cultural variations in perceptual organisation......Page 103
Glossary......Page 117
References......Page 132
Index......Page 139