Chapter 6 first Half Why Me

Question 1

Perception

Answer 1

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, 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 affect

Answer 3

The ability to attend to only one voice among many

Question 4

In-attentional blindness

Answer 4

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

Question 5

Change blindness

Answer 5

After a brief visual interruption, you fail to motive changes in visual field

Question 6

Change deafness

Answer 6

Fail to notice slight changes in our auditory field (switching when asking for directions)

Question 7

Choice blindness

Answer 7

Ways in which people are blind to their own choices and preferences, fail to notice our selection of particular stimulus is wrong

Question 8

Choice-blindness-blindness

Answer 8

Insisting that they should notice, blindness to the phenomenon

Question 9

Pop-out phenomenon

Answer 9

When a strikingly distinct stimulus stands out and demands our attention, no choice to look or not

Question 10

Illusions

Answer 10

Reveal the ways we normally organize and interpret out sensations, a perception of visual stimuli (optical illusion) that represents what is perceived in a way different from reality

Question 11

Visual capture

Answer 11

The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses

Question 12

Gestalt

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Figure-ground

Answer 13

The organization of the visual field into objects (the figure) that stand out from there surroundings (the ground)

Question 14

Grouping

Answer 14

The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

Question 15

Proximity

Answer 15

We group nearby figures together

Question 16

Similarity

Answer 16

We group figures that are similar to each other

Question 17

Continuity

Answer 17

We perceive smooth, and continuous patterns rather than discontinuous ones

Question 18

Connectedness

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Closure

Answer 19

We fill gaps to create a complete whole object

Question 20

Depth perception

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Visual cliff

Answer 21

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