Chapter 6 Vocab

Question 0

The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus as in the cocktail party effect

Answer 0

Selective attention

Question 1

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events

Answer 1

Perception

Question 2

Ability to attend to only one voice among many

Answer 2

Cocktail party effect

Question 3

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

Answer 3

Inattentional blindness

Question 4

After a brief visual interruption you fail to notice changes in your visual field

Answer 4

Change blindness

Question 5

The failure to notice slight changes in our auditory field

Answer 5

Change deafness

Question 6

Exhibiting denial (blindness) to falling victim to a hypothetical experiment

Answer 6

Choice Blindness Blindness

Question 7

When a strikingly distinct stimulus draws our attention

Answer 7

Pop-out phenomenon

Question 8

The failure to notice our selection of a particular stimulus has changed

Answer 8

Choice blindness

Question 9

The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses

Answer 9

Visual Capture

Question 10

A perception as of visual stimuli (optical illusion) that represents what is perceived in a way different from reality

Answer 10

Illusion

Question 11

An organized whole

Answer 11

Gestalt

Question 12

The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings

Answer 12

Figure-ground

Question 13

The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

Answer 13

Grouping

Question 14

Grouping of nearby figures together

Answer 14

Proximity

Question 15

Grouping of figures that are similar to each other

Answer 15

Similarity

Question 16

Perceiving smooth continuous patterns rather than discontinuous ones

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Continuity

Question 17

Because they are uniform and linked we perceive them as single units

Answer 17

Connectedness

Question 18

Filling in of gaps to create a complete whole object

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Closure

Question 19

Ability to see objects in 3 dimensions although the images that strike the retina are 2 dimensional allow us to judge distance

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Depth perception

Question 20

Laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals

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Visual cliff

Question 21

Depth cues such as retinal disparity and convergence that depend on the use of two eyes

Answer 21

Binocular cues

Question 22

Binocular cue for perceiving depth by comparing images from the two eyeballs brain compute difference

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Retinal disparity

Question 23

Binocular cue for perceiving depth to the extant to which the eyes coverage inward when looking at an object

Answer 23

Convergence

Question 24

Depth cues such as interposition and linear perspective available to either eye alone

Answer 24

Monocular cues

Question 25

Assume two objects are similar in size we perceive the one that casts the similar retinal image further away

Answer 25

Relative size

Question 26

In one object partially blocks are view of another we perceive it as closer

Answer 26

Introspection

Question 27

Perceiving hzy objects further away than sharp clear objects

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Relative clarity

Question 28

Gradual change from a coarse distinct texture to a fine indistinct texture signals increasing distance

Answer 28

Texture gradient

Question 29

Perceiving objects higher in our field of vision as further away

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Relative height

Question 30

As we move objects that are actually stable May appear to move

Answer 30

Relative motion

Question 31

Parallel lines appear to converge with distance

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Linear perspective

Question 32

Nearby objects reflect more light given two identical objects the dimmer one seems further away

Answer 32

Light and shadow

Question 33

An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession

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Ph phenomenon

Question 34

Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change

Answer 34

Perceptual constancy

Question 35

In vision the ability to adjust to artificially displaced or even inverted visual field

Answer 35

Perceptual adaption

Question 36

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

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Perceptual set

Question 37

Concepts

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Schema

Question 38

Branch of psychology that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be made safe and easy to use

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Human factors psychologists

Question 39

The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input

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Extrasensory perception

Question 40

Study of paranormal phenomena including ESP and psychokinesis

Answer 40

Parapsychology