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Describe to what extent does the automization of perception and pictorial cues cause's people to be deceived by visual illusion.
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Describe to what extent does the automization of perception and pictorial cues cause's people to be deceived by visual illusion. 'Sensation involves registering and forming a code for light, sound, etc. Through natural selection, our sensory systems have been designed to develop these for information about objects and events in our environment. The ability to interpret this information, to extract from it meaningful and useful representations of our world is called perception.1' Perception involves a set of processes by which sensory information is selected, organized and interpreted in a way that can be understood. The automization of perception involves two processes. Most perceptual illusions derive from the context in which the illusory elements appear and can be described in terms of the bottom-up and top down processes. The bottom up processes consist of integrating sensory information and forming a hypothesis of an object, and top down processes involve using previous knowledge in order...
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