Mod 10

Front 1

perception

Back 1

process of organizing and interpreting sensory information

Front 2

figure ground

Back 2

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

Front 3

grouping

Back 3

the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into understandable groups

Front 4

similarity

Back 4

placing items that look similar in the same group

Front 5

proximity

Back 5

placing objects close together in the same group

Front 6

closure

Back 6

brains tendency to look for the whole, not the parts; drives us to fill in any gaps in perceptual field

Front 7

continuity

Back 7

brain's tendency to believe that once an objects appears to move in a particular direction, the movement continues unchanged

Front 8

depth perception

Back 8

ability to see in three dimensions and judge distances

Front 9

visual cliff

Back 9

laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals

Front 10

binocular cues

Back 10

depth cues that require using both eyes

Front 11

monocular cues

Back 11

depth cues using one eye

Front 12

retinal disparity

Back 12

binocular depth cue resulting from slightly different images produced by the separation of the retinas in the left or right eyes

Front 13

convergance

Back 13

binocular depth cue related to the tension in eye muscles when the eyes track inward to focus on objects close to the viewer

Front 14

relative size

Back 14

object appearing large is close; object appearing small is distant

Front 15

relative motion

Back 15

apparent slowness indicates an object is distant

Front 16

interposition

Back 16

closer objects pertially obstruct view of more distant objects

Front 17

relative height

Back 17

distant objects appear higher in your field of vision than close objects do

Front 18

texture gradient

Back 18

distant objects usually have a much smoother texture than nearby objects

Front 19

relative clarity

Back 19

distant objects are less clear than nearby objects are

Front 20

linear perspective

Back 20

parallel lines seem to draw closer together in the distance

Front 21

size constancy

Back 21

when apparent size of an object changes, the actual size is not changing at all

Front 22

shape constancy

Back 22

assures us that object's shape has not changes even though our angle of view indicates it may have changed so

Front 23

light constancy

Back 23

gives us the ability to see an object as having a constant level of lightness no matter how the lighting conditions change

Front 24

perceptual constancy

Back 24

perceiving the size, shape, and lightness of an object as unchanging, even as the retinal image of the object changes

Front 25

context

Back 25

setting or environment in which we interpret sensory stimuli

Front 26

perceptual set

Back 26

mental predisposition to perceive something one way and not another

Front 27

schemss

Back 27

concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information

Front 28

extrasensory perception

Back 28

perceptions beyond the capabilities of our sensory systems

Front 29

precognition

Back 29

knowledge of future events

Front 30

telepathy

Back 30

ability to exchange thoughts with another person

Front 31

clairvoyance

Back 31

ability to see distant events