1. Chapter 6
Perception
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2. Selective attention
The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulation, as in the cocktail party effect.
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3. Inattentional blindness
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.
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4. Visual capture Tendency for vision to dominate the other senses.
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5. Gestalt
An organize whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasize our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
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6. Figure ground
Theorization of the visual field since objects [the figures] that stand out from their surroundings (the ground).
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7. Grouping
The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups.
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8. Depth perception
The ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike there now are two dimensional; allows us to judge distance.
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9. Visual Cliff
A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals.
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10. Binoculars cues
Depth cues, such as retinal disparity in convergence, that depends on the use of two eyes.
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11. Retinal disparity
Binocular cue for perceiving depths: by comparing images from the two eyeballs, the brain computes distance-the greater the disparity (difference) between the two images, the closer the object.
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12. Convergence
Not click you for proceeding death; the extent to which the guys converge inward when looking at an object. The greater the inward strain, the closer the object.
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13. Monocular cues
Depth cues, such as interposition and linear perspective, available to either by alone.
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14. Phi phenomenon
An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession.
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15. Perceptual consistency
Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent lateness, color, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change.
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16. Perceptual adaptation
In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificial displaced or even inverted visual field.
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17. Perceptual set
A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not on other.
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18. Extrasensory perception
The controversy of climate perception can occur apart from sensory input.
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19. Parapsychology
The study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis.
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