Psy 101 -- Chapter 6

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 our attention is directed elsewhere

Front 3

visual capture

Back 3

the tendency for vision to dominate the other senses

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gestalt

Back 4

an organized whole

Front 5

figure-ground

Back 5

the organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings

Front 6

grouping

Back 6

the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

Front 7

depth perception

Back 7

the ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two dimensional

Front 8

visual cliff

Back 8

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

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binocular cues

Back 9

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

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retinal disparity

Back 10

a binocular cue for perceiving depth

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convergence

Back 11

a binocular cue for perceiving depth; the extent to which the eyes converge inward when looking at an object

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monocular cues

Back 12

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

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phi phenomenon

Back 13

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

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perceptual constancy

Back 14

perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change

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perceptual adaptation

Back 15

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

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perceptual set

Back 16

a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

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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

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extrasensory perception (ESP)

Back 18

the controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input

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parapsychology

Back 19

the study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis