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| 1860179601 | Perception | the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events | 0 | |
| 1860179602 | Form Perception | we must perceive a figure from its ground | 1 | |
| 1860179603 | Depth Perception | transforms 2D into 3D | 2 | |
| 1860179604 | Motion Perception | brain computes motion as images move across the retina | 3 | |
| 1860179605 | perceptual interpretation | how we recognize an object | 4 | |
| 1860179606 | Selective attention | the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus | 5 | |
| 1860179607 | cocktail party effect | the ability to attend selectively to one voice among many | 6 | |
| 1860179608 | inattentional blindness | inability to see an object or person in our midst ex. Simmons and Chabris showed 1/2 observers failed to see a gorilla suited assistant in a ball passing game | 7 | |
| 1860179609 | changed blindness | a form of inattentional blindness; when you do not notice when something changes because you are so focused on something else | 8 | |
| 1860179610 | Muller-Lyer Illusion | lines that look different lengths but are actually the same or that look the same but one is significantly longer. Cultures that use many right angles see the lines as having different lengths while cultures that do not can usually tell that they are the same length | 9 | |
| 1860179611 | Ames room | designed to demonstrate the size-distance illusion | 10 | |
| 1860179612 | Visual Capture | the tendency for vision to dominate the other senses | 11 | |
| 1860179613 | Gestalt | an organized whole; the tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes | 12 | |
| 1860179614 | Law of Pragnanz | people tend to perceive objects in a simple, orderly way | 13 | |
| 1860179615 | Figure-Ground | the organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings (the ground) | 14 | |
| 1860179616 | Form Perception | the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups | 15 | |
| 1860179617 | Proximity | group nearby figures together | 16 | |
| 1860179618 | simularities | group figures that are simular | 17 | |
| 1860179619 | continuity | perceive continuous patterns | 18 | |
| 1860179620 | connectedness | spots, lines, and areas are seen as a unit when connected | 19 | |
| 1860179621 | closure | fill in the gaps | 20 | |
| 1860179622 | depth perception | the ability to see things in 3-D and allow us to judge distance | 21 | |
| 1866176787 | Visual cliff | Gibson & wak suggested that human infants have depth perception | 22 | |
| 1866180471 | Binocular cues | Require both eyes | 23 | |
| 1866183974 | Monocular cues | Available to each eye separately | 24 | |
| 1866187856 | Retinal disparity | Images from 2 eyes differ; closer the object, longer the disparity | 25 | |
| 1866201063 | Convergence | Neuromuscular cue; 2 eyes move inward for near objects; brain uses angle at which eyes are turned to gauge distance | 26 | |
| 1866203052 | Relative size | Smaller image is more distant | 27 | |
| 1866206468 | Interposition | If one object partially blocks another, we perceive it as closer | 28 | |
| 1866209467 | Relative clarity | Hazy objects are seen as more distant | 29 | |
| 1866212977 | Texture gradient | Course objects appear closer and fine objects are distant | 30 | |
| 1866216777 | Relative height | Objects higher in our field of vision appear far away; verticle rather than horizontal | 31 | |
| 1866219809 | Relative motion | Closer objects seem to move faster | 32 | |
| 1866223107 | Linear perspective | Parallel lines seem to converge with distance | 33 | |
| 1866229946 | Light and shadow | Closer objects appear brighter, shading produces depth | 34 | |
| 1866235716 | Motion perception | Objects traveling towards us grow in size and those moving away shrink in size | 35 | |
| 1866241274 | Phi phenomenon | An illusion of movement created when 2 or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession | 36 | |
| 1866248632 | Stroboscopic movement | The brain will interpret a rapid series of slightly varying images as continuous movement | 37 | |
| 1866271801 | Perceptual constancy | Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change | 38 | |
| 1866278641 | Size | Car driving away appears smaller | 39 | |
| 1866280487 | Shape | Look at a dinner plate from various angles | 40 | |
| 1866282214 | Lightness | Shirt looks different in different light | 41 | |
| 1866286918 | Template matching | Our brains have a template for everything we need to know and we match what we see to the templates | 42 | |
| 1866296412 | Prototype matching | We see what the best example of something is and see if they are close enough to match | 43 | |
| 1866302216 | Feature Analysis | We break down a feature into parts and analyze what it is | 44 | |
| 1866311025 | Immanuel Kant and John Locke | Knowledge comes from inborn way of organizing sensory experiences. Locke said through our experiences we learn to perceive the world. | 45 | |
| 1866320626 | Blackmore and Cooper | Kittens raised without exposure to horizontal lines later had difficulty perceiving horizontal bars | 46 | |
| 1866330487 | Perceptual Adaptation | Visual ability to adjust to an artificially displaced visual field. An example is prism glasses. | 47 | |
| 1866335388 | Perceptual Set | A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another. | 48 | |
| 1866339691 | Perception/Human Factor | Explores how humans and machines interact and how ,achenes and physical environments can be adapted to human behaviors. | 49 | |
| 1866345287 | Extrasensory Perception(ESP) | The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input. | 50 | |
| 1866363411 | Parapsychologists | People who study beyond normal occurrence. | 51 | |
| 1866366054 | Telepathy | Mind-mind communication | 52 | |
| 1866368433 | Clairvoyance | Perceiving remote events. | 53 | |
| 1866370825 | Precognition | Perceiving future events. | 54 | |
| 1866375025 | Psychokinesis | Mind over matter | 55 |
