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Chapter 6: Perception

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39522350Selective Attentionthe focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect
39522351Visual Capturethe tendency for vision to dominate the other senses
39522352Gestaltan organized whole. ________ psychologists emphasize out tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes
39522353Figure Groundthe organization of the visual field in to objects (the figures) that stand out from their surroundings (the ground)
39522354Groupingthe the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups
39522355Depth Perceptionthe ability to see things in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two dimensional; allows us to judge distance
39522356Visual Cliffa laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals
39522357Binocular Cuesdepth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes
39522358Monocular Cuesdistance cues, such as linear perspective and overlap available to either eye alone
39522359Retinal Disparitya binocular cue for perceiving depth: By comparing images from the two eye balls, the brain computes distance- the greater the disparity (difference) between the two images, the closer the object
39522360Convergencethe binocular cue for perceiving depth; the extent to which the eyes converge inward when looking at an object
39522361Phi Phenomenonan illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink off and on in succession
39522362Perceptual Constancyperceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change
39522363Perceptual Adaptationin vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field
39522364Perceptual Seta mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another
39522365Human Factors Psychologya branch of psychology that explores how people and how machines and physical environments can be adapted to human behaviors
39522366Extrasensory Perception (ESP)the contraversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input
39522367Parapsychologythe study of paranormal phenomena

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