Chapter 6 first Half Why Me Flashcards
Perception
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, 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 affect
The ability to attend to only one voice among many
In-attentional blindness
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
Change blindness
After a brief visual interruption, you fail to motive changes in visual field
Change deafness
Fail to notice slight changes in our auditory field (switching when asking for directions)
Choice blindness
Ways in which people are blind to their own choices and preferences, fail to notice our selection of particular stimulus is wrong
Choice-blindness-blindness
Insisting that they should notice, blindness to the phenomenon
Pop-out phenomenon
When a strikingly distinct stimulus stands out and demands our attention, no choice to look or not
Illusions
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
Visual capture
The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses
Gestalt
An organized whole, psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes
Figure-ground
The organization of the visual field into objects (the figure) that stand out from there surroundings (the ground)
Grouping
The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups
Proximity
We group nearby figures together
Similarity
We group figures that are similar to each other
Continuity
We perceive smooth, and continuous patterns rather than discontinuous ones
Connectedness
Because they are uniform and linked, we perceive the two dots and the line between as a single unit
Closure
We fill gaps to create a complete whole object
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
