Izzy's AP Psych Ch 06
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| 12493208 | selective attention | The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect | |
| 12493209 | visual capture | The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses | |
| 12493210 | gestalt | An organized whole - gestalt psychologists emphasize our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes | |
| 12493211 | figure-ground | The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings | |
| 12493212 | grouping | The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups | |
| 12493213 | 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 | |
| 12493214 | visual cliff | A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals | |
| 12493215 | binocular cues | Depth cues that depend on the use of two eyes | |
| 12493216 | monocular cues | Distance cues available to either eye alone | |
| 12493217 | retinal disparity | A binocular cue for perceiving depth; by comparing images from the two eyeballs, the brain computes distance - the greater the disparity between the two images, the closer the object | |
| 12493218 | convergence | A binocular cue for perceiving depth; the extent to which the eyes converge inward when looking at an object | |
| 12493219 | phi phenomenon | An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession | |
| 12493220 | perceptual constancy | Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change | |
| 12493221 | perceptual adaptation | In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or inverted visual field | |
| 12493222 | perceptual set | A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another | |
| 12493223 | human factors psychology | A branch of psychology that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be adapted to human behaviors | |
| 12493224 | extrasensory perception (ESP) | The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input - said to include telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition | |
| 12493225 | parapsychology | The study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis |