Psychology Test 2

Front 1

Selective Attention

Back 1

the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect.

Front 2

inattentional blindness

Back 2

failing to see visible objects when or attention is directed elsewhere.

Front 3

visual capture

Back 3

the tendency for vision to dominate the other senses.

Front 4

gestalt

Back 4

an organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphesized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.

Front 5

figure-ground

Back 5

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

Front 6

grouping

Back 6

the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherant groups

Front 7

depth perception

Back 7

the ability to see objects in three dimension although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance

Front 8

visual cliff

Back 8

a laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals

Front 9

binocular cues

Back 9

depth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes

Front 10

retinal disparity

Back 10

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

Front 11

convergence

Back 11

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.

Front 12

monocular cues

Back 12

depth cues, such as interposition and linear perspective, available to either eye alone

Front 13

phi phenomenon

Back 13

an illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in a quick succession

Front 14

perceptual constancy

Back 14

percieving objects as unchanging (having consistent lightness, color, shape, and size) even as illuminating and retinal images change.

Front 15

perceptual adaption

Back 15

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

Front 16

perceptual set

Back 16

a mental predisposition to percieve one thing and not another

Front 17

human factors psychology

Back 17

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

Front 18

extrasensory perception (ESP)

Back 18

the controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input. Said to include telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

Front 19

parapsychology

Back 19

the study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokineses