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Cocktail Party Effect

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Form of Selective Attention

Ability to attend to only one voice among many

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Selective Attention

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The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

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Inattentional Blindness

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Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

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Change Blindness

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Failure to notice changes in surroundings when attention is focused on something else

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Change Deafness

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Failure to notice a change in the speaker or speaking when attention is focused on something else like the words

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Choice Blindness

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Failure to notice that, when you choose something, you are shown something entirely different

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Choice Blindness Blindness

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Saying that you’d totally notice if you were shown what you didn’t choose (but most people don’t)

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Pop-Out

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When a strikingly distinct stimulus catches your attention

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Visual Capture

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The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses

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Gestalt (German for “form” or “whole”)

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

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Illusion

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

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Figure-Ground

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

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Grouping

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The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

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Proximity

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Grouping nearby figures together

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Similarity

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Grouping figures that are similar to each other

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Continuity

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Perception of smooth, continuous patterns rather than discontinuous ones

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Connectedness

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Perceiving uniform and linked figures as a single unit

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Closure

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Filling in gaps to create a complete, whole image

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Depth Perception

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

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Visual Cliff

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

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Binocular Cues

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Depth cues, such a retinal disparity and convergence, that depend upon the use of two eyes

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Retinal Disparity

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A binocular cue for perceiving depth; by comparing images from the two eyeballs, the brain compute distance- the greater the disparity (difference) between the two images, the closer the object.

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Convergence

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A binocular cue for perceiving depth; the extent to which the eyes converge inward when looking at an object. The greater the inward strain, the closer the object.

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Monocular Cues

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

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Relative Size

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Monocular Cue
If we assume that two objects are similar in size, we perceive the one that casts the smaller retinal image as farther away

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Interposition

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Monocular Cue

If one object partially blocks our view of another, we perceive it as closer

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Relative Clarity

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Monocular Cue

We perceive hazy objects as farther away than sharp, clear objects

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Texture Gradient

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Monocular Cue

Objects far away appear smaller and more densely packed

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Relative Height

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Monocular Cue

We perceive objects higher in our field of vision as farther away and perceive the lower part as closer

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Relative Motion (Motion Parallax)

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Monocular Cue

When moving, the nearer the object is to you, the faster it seems to move

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Linear Perspective

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Monocular Cue

Parallel lines appear to converge with distance- the more the lines converge, the greater their perceived distance

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Light and Shadow

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Monocular Cue
Nearby objects reflect more light to our eyes- dimmer objects therefore seem farther away. Shading produces a sense of depth consistent with assumed light source.

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Motion Perception of Objects

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Shrinking objects are perceived to be retreating; enlarging objects appear to be approaching. Large objects seem to move slower than small objects.

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Stroboscopic Movement

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Phenomenon where the brain perceives continuous movement in a rapid series of slightly varying images

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Phi Phenomenon

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

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Perceptual Constancy

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Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent lightness, color, shape & size) even as illumination and retinal images change

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Shape Constancy

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Perceived shape can appear as staying consistent even when angles are changed

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Size Constancy

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Perceive objects as having constant size even when distance changes

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Lightness/Brightness Constancy

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Objects are perceived as having constant lightness despite illumination variations

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Relative Luminance

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Amount of light an object reflects relative to its surroundings

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Critical Period

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An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism’s exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development such a recognizing a face as a whole

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Perceptual Adaptation

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

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Perceptual Set

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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

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Schemes

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Concepts formed through experience that organize and interpret unfamiliar information

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Human Factors Psychology

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A 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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Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

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The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input. Said to include telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

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Telepathy

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Mind-to-mind communication

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Clairvoyance

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Perceiving remote events

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Precognition

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Perceiving future events

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Parapsychology

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The study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis (PK)

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Psychokinesis

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“mind over matter”

levitating things and going all Carrie on people’s asses

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