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| 5744827005 | Gestalt principles | Principles that describe the top-down processing that organizes sensory information into distinct forms (nearness, similarity, common region, closure, continuity, figure & ground). |  | 0 |
| 5744828265 | proximal stimuli | The stimulus energies that impinge directly on sensory receptors. |  | 1 |
| 5744829379 | distal stimuli | Stimuli that lie in the distance (that is, in the world outside the body). |  | 2 |
| 5744830862 | perceptual constancies | tendency to perceive objects as stable and unchanging despite changing sensory info (size, shape, brightness, color) |  | 3 |
| 5744831334 | depth perception | the ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance |  | 4 |
| 5744831916 | monocular cues | depth cues, such as interposition and linear perspective, available to either eye alone |  | 5 |
| 5744832370 | binocular cues | depth cues, such as retinal disparity, that depend on the use of two eyes |  | 6 |
| 5744832890 | visual cliff | a laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals |  | 7 |
| 5744833781 | apparent motion | the perception of movement as a result of alternating signals appearing in rapid succession in different locations |  | 8 |
| 5744834726 | bottom up processing | analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information | 9 | |
| 5744835157 | top down processing | information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations |  | 10 |
| 5744835650 | perceptual set | a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another |  | 11 |
| 5744836115 | selective attention | The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus |  | 12 |
| 5744836823 | dichotic listening | A task in which people wearing headphones hear different messages presented to each ear. |  | 13 |
| 5744837632 | cocktail party effect | ability to attend to only one voice among many |  | 14 |
