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20 Cards in this Set
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Sensation
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occurs anytime a stimulus activates one of your receptors.
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Stimulus
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The enviroment which an organism responds.
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Perception
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interpretation of a sensation
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Absolute Threshold
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level of stimulus that proceduces a positive response of detection 50 percent of the time.
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Attention
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process of focusing your perception of a limited number of your stimuli.
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2 factors of attention:
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Stimuli
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Gesalt
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The experiences that comes from organizing bits and
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Proximity
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tendency to group together those elements that are close to each other.
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Continuity
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tendency to see smooth contineous contours rather than discrete, disrupted shapes.
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Similarity
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tendency to group together those lements that are similar
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Simpicity
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tendency to perciever a pattern in the simplest most organized manner
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Closure
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tendency to group according to enclosed or completed rather than open
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Figure-Ground Perception
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the ability to discriminate properly between a figure and its background
Ex:3-D, 2-D |
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Subliminal Perception
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auditory or visual messages presented below the absolute threshold.
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Depth perception
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ability to reconize distances and threedimensionality
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Textur-Density gradient
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amount of detail
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linear perspective
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based on the fact that parallel lines converge when streched
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convergence
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process by which you eyes turn inward to look at nearby objects.
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Constancy
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people are able to percieve objects as the same by the processes of size, shape, brightness, and color
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illusion
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perceptions that miss represent physical stimuli.
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