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Must detect energy from environment (__) and encode it as neural signals (__); we must also select, organize, and interpret (__) our sensations (__)

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bottom-upsensationtop-downperception

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__ is divided at the level of conscious awareness

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Attention

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From an immense array of visual __ before us, we select just a few to __

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stimuliprocess

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__ reveal the ways we normally organize and interpret our sensations

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Illusions

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Must perceive objects as distinct from their __, having a meaningful and constant __, and discern their __ and __

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surroundingsformdistance and motion

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In perception, the __ may exceed the sum of its parts. Perceived __ differs from the sum of its parts

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wholewhole

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__ and __ are one continuous process progressing upward from specialized __ __ and downward from our __

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Sensation and perceptiondetector cellsassumptions

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First perceptual task: perceive an object (__) as distinct from its surroundings (__)

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figureground

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We now organize the __ into meaningful form; process basic features of a __ instantly and automatically (color, movement, light/dark contrast)

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figure scene

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__ and __ found 6-14 month old infants refused to pass over the dangerous drop off in a visual cliff, showing they could perceive __

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Eleanor GibsonRichard Walkdepth

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By __ __, infants use gestalt perception principles by looking at novel groupings of objects

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3 months

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__ __ predisposes our wariness of heights, but __ amplifies it

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Biological maturationexperience

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Since our eyes are about 2½ inches apart, our retinas receive __ __ images of world

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slightly different

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3-D movies simulate or exaggerate __ __ by photographing a scene with two cameras placed a few inches apart; 3-D effect mimics normal __ __

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retinal disparityretinal disparity

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Contribute to illusion that vertical dimensions are longer than identical horizontal dimensions

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relative height

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Objects beyond __ __ appear to move w/ you; farther away the objects are, __ they will move; brain uses the speed and direction to compare objects’ __ __

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fixation pointfasterrelative distances

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Normally, brain computes motion based partly on its assumption that __ objects are retreating (not getting smaller) and __ objects are approaching

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shrinkingenlarging

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We can identify things regardless of the __, __, and __ by which we view them

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angle, distance, & illumination

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Perceiving an object’s distance gives us cues to its __ and vice versa

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size

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Cues to objects’ distances at the horizon make the moon behind them seem __ __ than the moon high in the night sky, so the horizon moon seems __

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farther awaylarger

21
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Our experiences in __ __ help us construct our perception top down

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rectangular contexts

22
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Perceived lightness stays __ given an unchanging context, but it __ with context

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constantchanges

23
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When patients cataracts were surgically removed, they could distinguish __ from __ and could sense __, suggesting these aspects of perception are __

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figure from groundcolorinnate

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Former blind patients could not recognize by sight objects that were familiar by __

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touch

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Vision is partly an __ sense; there is a __ __ for normal sensory and perceptual development; __ guides, sustains, and maintains the brain’s neural organization

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acquiredcritical periodexperience

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Humans __ adapt to distorting lenses quickly, even ones that flip the world upside down

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can

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Once we have formed a __ __ about reality, we have more difficulty seeing the truthWe form __ (__) that organize and interpret unfamiliar information

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wrong ideaconcepts (schemas)

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In young children, the __ has greater importance than the __ in schemas of essential human characteristics

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facebody

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When shown 3 familiar faces (actual face, caricature that accentuated differences b/w the face and the average face, anticaricature that muted distinctive features), they recognized the __ __ more accurately than the __ ones

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caricatured facesactual

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The brain can work __ __ __ to allow a later stimulus to determine how we perceive an earlier one; context creates an __ that, top-down, influences our __ as we match our bottom-up signal against it

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backward in timeexpectationperception

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Skilled directors evoke emotion in an audience by defining a __ in which viewers interpret an actor’s __

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contextexpressions

32
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Perception is fed by two streams: __ and __

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sensation and cognition

33
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By exploiting “__ __”, simple design changes could reduce some of our frustrations

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“natural mapping”

34
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Technology developers have a hard time seeing that what’s __ to them is __ __ to others

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clearnot clear

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Engineers should design things to __ __ , being mindful of the curse of __, and __ __ their inventions before production and distribution

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fit peopleknowledgeuser testing

36
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Psychics __ see into the future and __ predict surprising events

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cannotcannot

37
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Vague predictions can later be __ to match events that provide a perceptual set

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interpreted

38
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Our __ do not predict the future; with enough time and people the improbable becomes __; some stunning __ are going to occur

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dreamsinevitablecoincidences

39
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Experimenters control what the psychic __ and __; a psychic controls what the audience __ and __

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sees and hearssees and hears

40
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To believe in ESP, you must believe the brain is capable of perceiving without __ __

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sensory input

41
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No person has emerged yet that could demonstrate a single, reproducible __ __

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ESP phenomenon

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