Ap Psych - Ch 6 - Myers

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Selective Attention

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The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect.

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Visual Capture

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The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses.

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Gestalt

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An organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasize our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.

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Figure-ground

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The organization of the visual field into objects (the figures) that stand out from their surroundings (the ground).

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Grouping

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The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups.

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Depth Perception

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The ability to see objects in three dimension although the images that strike the retina are two dimensional; allows us to judge distance.

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Visual Cliff

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A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals.

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Binocular Cues

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Depth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes.

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Monocular Cues

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Distance cues, such as linear perspective and overlap, available to either eye alone.

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Retinal Disparity

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A binocular cue for perceiving depth: By comparing images from the two eyeballs, the brain computes distance - the greater the disparity (difference) between the two images, the closer the object.

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Convergence

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A binocular cue for perceiving depth; the extent to which the eyes converge inward when looking at an object.

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Phi Phenomenon

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An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession.

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Perceptual Constancy

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Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent lightness, color, shape and size) even as illumination and retinal images change.

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Perceptual Adaptation

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Vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field.

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Perceptual Set

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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.

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Human factors psychology

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A branch of psychology that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be adapted to human behaviors.

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Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

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The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input. Said to include telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

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Parapsychology

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The study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis.