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19 Cards in this Set
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Selective Attention
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Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. Cocktail Party Effect
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Inattentional Blindness
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Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
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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. The way we take pieces to make a meaningful whole.
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Figure-ground
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The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings.
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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 dimensions although the images that strike the retina are 2D. 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 that the depend on the use of two eyes
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Retinal Disparity
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By comparing images from the eyes, the brain computes distance. The greater the disparity between the two images, the closer the object.
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Convergence
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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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Monocular Cues
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Depth cues available to either eye alone
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Phi Phenomenon
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And illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession
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Perceptual Constancy
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Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change
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Human Factors Psychology
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A branch of psychology that explores how people and machines interact; how machines and physical environments can be made safe and easy to use
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Perceptual Adaption
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The ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or 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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Extrasensory Perception
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A claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input.
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Parapsychology
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Study of paranormal phenomenon such as ESP and psychokieses.
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