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19 Cards in this Set
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What is 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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What is inattentional blindness?
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Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.
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What is visual capture?
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The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses.
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What is gestalt?
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An organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
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What is 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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What is grouping?
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The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups.
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What is depth perception?
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The ability to see objects in three dimensions although the objects that strike in the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance.
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What is visual cliff?
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A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals.
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What are 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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What is 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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What is convergence?
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A binocular cue for perceiving depth; the extent to which the eyes converge inward when looking at an object. The greater the inward strain, the closer the object.
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What are monocular cues?
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Depth cues, such as interposition and linear perspective, available to either eye alone.
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What is phi phenomenon?
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An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession.
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What is 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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What is perceptual adaptation?
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In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field.
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What is a perceptual set?
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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.
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What is 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 made safe and easy to use.
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What is 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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What is parapsychology?
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The study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis.
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