Chapter 6 Flashcards
Perception
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory info, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
Selective Attention
The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect
Cocktail Party Effect
Ability to attend to only one voice among many
Inattentional Blindness
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
Change Blindness
We sometimes fail to notice changes (blind to us) because our focus is elsewhere
Change Deafness
Fail to notice a certain sound because your focus is elsewhere
Choice Blindness
Fail to notice a change in the choice you made
Choice-Blindness Blindness
A blindness to the phenomena of choice blindness
Pop-Out Phenomenon
Stimuli that is so distinct that it demands our attention
Visual Capture
The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses
Gestalt
An organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes
Figure-Ground
The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings
Grouping
The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups
Proximity
We group nearby figures together
Similarity
We group together figures that are similar to each other
Continuity
We perceive smooth, continuous patterns rather then discontinuous ones
Connectedness
Because they are uniform and linked, we perceive the two dots and the line between them as a single unit
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
Visual Cliff
A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals
Binocular Cues
Depth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes
