Psychology Chapter 6 Vocab Part2

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selective attention

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the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

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cocktail party effect

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even in a room full of people- selective attention => zeroes in if someone says your name across the room

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inattentional blindness

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failing to see visible objects when our attention is diverted elsewhere

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visual capture

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vision dominates perceptions

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gestalt

Back 5

organizing into meaningful wholes > parts

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figure-ground

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____ is object; ____ is background; the relation and organization of the visual field into two parts

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stroop task

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naming colors of words when the words are other colors

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grouping by proximity

Back 8

based on how things are physically close; grouped together

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grouping by similarity

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grouped based on for example the same shapes/colors/etc

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grouping by continuity

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seeing a continuous line vs half circles when they are squiggly across one horizontal line

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grouping by connectedness

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when things are connected- they are percieved together

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grouping by closure

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grouping many objects together by filling in the gaps to get a whole object

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depth perception

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ability to judge distances through visual cues

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visual cliff

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lab device testing infants/young animals' perception of depth

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binocular cues

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cues from both eyes

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retinal disparity

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two slightly different views resulting in the eyes being a couple inches apart

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convergence

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the inward turning of the eyes to closer objects

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monocular cues

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cues about distances through one eye

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relative size

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a monocular cue dealing with big/small

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relative position

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monocular cue dealing with hazy and clear objects depending on their ____

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texture gradient

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closer objects are coarser and further away objects are finer in _____

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relative height

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vertical dimensions monocular cue

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relative motion

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as youy move a stable object also moves- the closer it is, the faster it moves

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linear perspective

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the further away, the more convergence

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light/shadow

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the closer an obejct is the more light it reflects; assumes all light originates from above

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stroboscopic movement

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brain perceives continous movement in a rapid series of slightly varying images

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phi phenomenon

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when two adjacent stationary lights blink on/off in a quick succession; it's percieved as a single light moving

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perceptual constancy

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percieving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change

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perceptual adaptation

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in vision, the ability to adjust to an artifically displaced or even inverted visual field

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perceptual set

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mental predisposition to percieve one thing and not another

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human factors psychology

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branch of psychology exploring how people and machines interact; and how machinesa ndphysical environments can be made safe and easy to use

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ESP

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extrasensory perception- controversial clainm that perception can occur apart from sensory input

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parasychology

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study of paranormal phenomena including ESP and psychokenesis