Chapter 6

Question 0

Selective attention

Answer 0

The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.

Question 1

Perception

Answer 1

Organizing and interpreting sensory information

Question 2

Cocktail party effect

Answer 2

The ability to only listen to one conversation at once.

Question 3

Inattentional blindness

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Choice blindness

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Change deafness

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Change blindness

Answer 6

Fail to notice changes because our focus is elsewhere.

Question 7

Choice blindness-blindness

Answer 7

Blindness to phenomenon of choice blindness.

Question 8

Pop out phenomenon

Answer 8

Stimuli that is so distinct that it demands our attention.

Question 9

Illusions

Answer 9

Reveal the ways we normally organize and interpret our sensations.

Question 10

Visual capture

Answer 10

Tendency for vision to dominate the other senses.

Question 11

Gestalt

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Figure ground

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Grouping

Answer 13

Perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into connect groups

Question 14

Group nearby figures together

Answer 14

Proximity

Question 15

Similarity

Answer 15

Group together figures that are similar

Question 16

Continuity

Answer 16

Perceive smooth continuous lines and patterns.

Question 17

Connectedness

Answer 17

Preciezer linker and uniform instem of sperate.

Question 18

Depth Perception

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Ability to see in 3D although its 2D

Question 19

Visual Cliff

Answer 19

Lab device used to test depth perception

Question 20

Closure

Answer 20

Fill in gaps to create complete image.

Question 21

Binocular cues

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

Question 22

Retinal disparity

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

Question 23

Convergence

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

Question 24

Monocular cues

Answer 24

Separate for each eye

Question 25

Relative size

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Interposition

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Relative clarity

Answer 27

Hazy objects= farther away

Question 28

Distinct texture = increased distance?

Answer 28

Texture gradient

Question 29

Lower object = closer

Answer 29

Relative height

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Relative motion

Question 31

Parallel lines converge with distance

Answer 31

Linear perspective

Question 32

Light and shadow

Answer 32

Dimmer object are farther away

Question 33

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

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Phi phenomenon

Question 34

Stroboscopic effect

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Perceptual constancy

Answer 35

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

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Perceptual adaptation

Question 37

Perceptual set

Answer 37

Mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

Question 38

Schema

Answer 38

Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

Question 39

Context effects

Answer 39

Given Stimulus may trigger radically different perceptions

Question 40

Explores how people and machines interact

Answer 40

Human factors psychologists

Question 41

ESP?

Answer 41

Extra sensory perception- fortune telling

Question 42

Parapsychology

Answer 42

Study of people who an “see the future”