Chapter 6

Question 1

Perception

Answer 1

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory info, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events

Question 2

Selective Attention

Answer 2

The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect

Question 3

Cocktail Party Effect

Answer 3

Ability to attend to only one voice among many

Question 4

Inattentional Blindness

Answer 4

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

Question 5

Change Blindness

Answer 5

We sometimes fail to notice changes (blind to us) because our focus is elsewhere

Question 6

Change Deafness

Answer 6

Fail to notice a certain sound because your focus is elsewhere

Question 7

Choice Blindness

Answer 7

Fail to notice a change in the choice you made

Question 8

Choice-Blindness Blindness

Answer 8

A blindness to the phenomena of choice blindness

Question 9

Pop-Out Phenomenon

Answer 9

Stimuli that is so distinct that it demands our attention

Question 10

Visual Capture

Answer 10

The 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 information into meaningful wholes

Question 12

Figure-Ground

Answer 12

The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings

Question 13

Grouping

Answer 13

The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

Question 14

Proximity

Answer 14

We group nearby figures together

Question 15

Similarity

Answer 15

We group together figures that are similar to each other

Question 16

Continuity

Answer 16

We perceive smooth, continuous patterns rather then discontinuous ones

Question 17

Connectedness

Answer 17

Because they are uniform and linked, we perceive the two dots and the line between them as a single unit

Question 18

Depth Perception

Answer 18

The ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance

Question 19

Visual Cliff

Answer 19

A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals

Question 20

Binocular Cues

Answer 20

Depth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes