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Chapter 6 Percpetion Flashcards

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Percpetion

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the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory information

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The Cocktail Party Effect

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a type of selective listening where we filter out noise and focus on one conversation

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Inattentional Blindness

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the inability to see an object or person in our midst

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Change Blindness

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a form of inattentional blindness where individuals giving directions failed to notice a change in the individual asking for directions

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Perceptual Illusions

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help us understand how perception is organized, the context matters

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Visual Capture

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vision wins when competing with other senses

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Form Perception

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Organization of the visual field into figures that stand out from their ground

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Grouping

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Proximity, Similarity, Continuity, Connectedness, Closure (can lead us astray)

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Depth Perception (Visual Cliff)

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Allows us to judge distances

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Binocular Cues

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Things seen using two eyes (Retinal Disparity, Convergence)

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Retinal Disparity

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Images from the two eyes differ

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Convergence

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Two eyes move inward to see near objects, outward to see far objects

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Monocular Cues

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Can be seen using one eye (Relative Size, Interposition, Relative Clarity, Texture Gradient, Relative Height, Relative Motion, Linear Perspective, Light and Shadow, Motion Perception)

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Relative Size

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When two objects are similar size, we perceive that one casts a similar image farther away

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Interposition

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Objects that block other objects are perceived as closer

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Relative Clarity

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We perceive hazy objects to be farther away than those that apear clear

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Texture Gradient

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Indistinct texture signals increasing distance

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Relative Height

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We perceive objects that are higher in our field of vision to be farther away

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Relative Motion

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Objects closer move faster, objects farther move slower

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Linear Perspective

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Parallel lines appear to converge in the distance

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Light and Shadow

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The dimmer objects appears farther, the nearby reflects more light

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Motion Percpetion

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Objects traveling towards us grow in size and those moving away shrinks

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Phi Phenomenon

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When light flash at a certain speed they present the illusions of motion

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Perceptual Constancy

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Perceiving objects as unchanging even though our retinal image changes

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Size Constancy

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Stable size perception amind changing size of stimuli

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Ames Room

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Designed to demonstrate the size-distance illusion

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Lightness Constancy

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The color changes by light but we perceive it to be the same

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Color Constancy

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Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent solor even light changes the image

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Kant

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Knowledge comes from our inborn ways of organizing sensory experiences

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Locke

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We learn to perveive the world through our experiences

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Restored Vision

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Blind adults who regain sight could diferentiate figure and ground but had difficulty distinguishing figures and unable to recognize faces

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Perceptual Adaptation

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Ability to adjust with the goggles

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Perceptual Set

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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

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Psychological Influences on Perception

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Selective attention, Gestalt principles, learned shcemas, emotional context, perceptual set

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Human Factor Psychologist

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Design appliances that fit our natural perceptions

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Extrasensory Perception

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Perception without sensory input

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Parapsychology

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The study of paranormal phenomena including ESP and psychokinesis

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Telepathy

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Mind-to-mind communication

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Clairvoyance

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Percpetion of remote events in the present

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Precognition

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Perceiving furture events

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