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5.06 Perception Flashcards

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the process by which your brain takes all the sensations you experience and interprets them and assigns meaning

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perception

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the first step in perception

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attention

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the phenomenon of being able to focus one’s auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much the same way that a partygoer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room

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cocktail party effect

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something that remains the same, unchanging

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constancy

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perceptual tendency to interpret an object as always being the same size, regardless of its distance from the viewer

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size constancy

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perceptual tendency to interpret the shape of an object as being constant, even when its image change on the retina

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shape constancy

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perceptual tendency to interpret the apparent brightness of an object as the same, even when light conditions change

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brightness constancy

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three important perceptual constancies

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size, shape, brightness

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the Gestalt tendencies are to __ objects and perceive __ shapes

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group, whole

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figures that seem to go back and forth between two different images

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reversible images

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a type of perceptual grouping that allows us to identify a figure based on its background

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figure-ground organization

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Gestalt principles that explains our tendency to organize isolated stimuli into groups, based on their characteristics

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grouping principles

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six important Gestalt grouping principles

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contiguity, continuity, closure, similarity, proximity, common region

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Gestalt grouping principle that suggests that objects that are close together are perceived to be part of the same group

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proximity principle

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Gestalt grouping principle that refers to our tendency to perceive things that look similar as being part of the same group

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similarity principle

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Gestalt grouping principle that refers to our tendency to perceive complete figures even if we need to “fill in” or “close” broken lines or missing parts

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closure principle

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Gestalt grouping principle that refers to our tendency to perceive things as having a continuous pattern, rather than a disjointed one

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continuity principle

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Gestalt grouping principle that refers to our tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related

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contiguity principle

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Gestalt grouping principle that refers to our tendency to perceive objects that are in a common area as being in the same group

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common region principle

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the apability to see the world in three dimensions

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depth perception

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experiments showing that infants can perceive depth early in life

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visual cliff experiments

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visual cues that help us to perceive depth and require the use of only one eye

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monocular clues

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seven important monocular clues

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  • linear perspective
  • relative size
  • overlap or interposition
  • aerial/atmospheric perspective
  • texture gradient
  • motion parallax
  • accommodation
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monocular cue in which parallel lines to appear to converge

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linear perspective

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monocular cue in which objects that are small are assumed to be far away

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relative size

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monocular cue in which object that is blocking another object is assumed to be in front of the other object

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overlap or interposition

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monocular cue in which fuzzy, hazy or blurry objects are assumed to be farther away

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aerial/atmospheric perspective

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monocular cue in which textured surfaces appear to become smaller and finer as distance from the viewer increases

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texture gradient

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monocular cue in which, as the observer moves, objects close to her appear to move quickly, while objects distant from her appear to move more slowly

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motion parallax

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monocular cue in which the brain uses information about the changing lens to make conclusions about the distance of objects

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accommodation

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visual cues that help us to perceive depth and require the use of both eyes

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binocular cues

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two important binocular cues

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convergence and binocular/retinal disparity

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Our eyes come closer together to see closer objects. Our brains use this information about the __ of our eyes to judge depth.

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convergence

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Close your right eye, and you see one image, close your left eye, and you see the same objects slightly offset. Our brains use this information about the __ between the images to judge depth.

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binocular/retinal disparity

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general term for a perception that does not match reality

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illusion

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types of cells in the visual cortex that respond to specific features of a stimulus

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feature detectors

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three types of visual cortex cells identified by Hubel and Wiesel

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simple cells, complex cells, end-stopped cells

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feature detector cell that responds only to bars of a specific orientation

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simple cells

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feature detector cell that responds to orientation and movement

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complex cell

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feature detector cell that responds to corners, curvature and edges

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end-stopped cell

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an illusion that causes us to perceive a still image to be moving

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autokinetic effect

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occurs when a rapid series of still pictures can appear to be in motion

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stroboscopic motion

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an example of stroboscopic motion in which lights turned on in sequence appear to move

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phi phenomenon

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fast and small eye movements

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microsaccades

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our tendency to perceive things in a certain way based on our experiences or expectations

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perceptual set or perceptual expectancy

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a stimulus that can be interpreted in more than one way and is influenced by our experiences, beliefs and expectations

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ambiguous figures

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perceptual processing that occurs when we use preexisting knowledge to organize individual parts of what we see into a whole

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top-down processing

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perceptual processing that occurs when we allow the smaller parts of what we sense to drive our perception of the whole

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bottom-up processing

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