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Selective attention

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The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.

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Perception

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Organizing and interpreting sensory information

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Cocktail party effect

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The ability to only listen to one conversation at once.

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Inattentional blindness

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Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.

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Choice blindness

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Fail to notice a change in a choice that you made.

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Change deafness

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Fail to notice certain sound because your focus is is elsewhere.

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Change blindness

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Fail to notice changes because our focus is elsewhere.

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Choice blindness-blindness

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Blindness to phenomenon of choice blindness.

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Pop out phenomenon

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Stimuli that is so distinct that it demands our attention.

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Illusions

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Reveal the ways we normally organize and interpret our sensations.

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Visual capture

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Tendency for vision to dominate the other senses.

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Gestalt

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An organized whole, gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of info into meaningful wholes

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Figure ground

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Organization of visual field into objects that stand out from its surroundings.

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Grouping

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Perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into connect groups

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Group nearby figures together

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Proximity

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Similarity

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Group together figures that are similar

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Continuity

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Perceive smooth continuous lines and patterns.

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Connectedness

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Preciezer linker and uniform instem of sperate.

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Depth Perception

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Ability to see in 3D although its 2D

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Visual Cliff

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Lab device used to test depth perception

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Closure

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Fill in gaps to create complete image.

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Binocular cues

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Depth cues, like retinal disparity and convergence, depend on the use of 2 eyes.

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Retinal disparity

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Binocular cue for perceiving depth. Greater distance between two objects closer object is.

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Convergence

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Neuromuscular cue caused by the eyes greater inward strain. Nearby objects cause greater strain

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Monocular cues

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Separate for each eye

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Relative size

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We think 2 objects similar in size farther one away is smaller

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Interposition

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If one object partially blocks our view of another we perceive it as closer

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Relative clarity

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Hazy objects= farther away

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Distinct texture = increased distance?

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Texture gradient

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Lower object = closer

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Relative height

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As we move, object that don’t appear to move.

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Relative motion

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Parallel lines converge with distance

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Linear perspective

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Light and shadow

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Dimmer object are farther away

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Illusion of movement when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off In quick succession

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Phi phenomenon

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Stroboscopic effect

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Visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when continuous motion is presented by sequence of short samples

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Perceptual constancy

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Perceiving objects as I changing even as illumination and retinal images change.

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Ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field

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Perceptual adaptation

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Perceptual set

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Mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

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Schema

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Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

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Context effects

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Given Stimulus may trigger radically different perceptions

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Explores how people and machines interact

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Human factors psychologists

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ESP?

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Extra sensory perception- fortune telling

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Parapsychology

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Study of people who an “see the future”

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