Izzy's AP Psych Ch 06
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 selective attention | The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect |
| visual capture | The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses |
| gestalt | An organized whole - gestalt psychologists emphasize our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes |
| figure-ground | The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings |
| grouping | The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups |
| 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 |
| binocular cues | Depth cues that depend on the use of two eyes |
| monocular cues | Distance cues available to either eye alone |
| retinal disparity | A binocular cue for perceiving depth; by comparing images from the two eyeballs, the brain computes distance - the greater the disparity between the two images, the closer the object |
| convergence | A binocular cue for perceiving depth; the extent to which the eyes converge inward when looking at an object |
| phi phenomenon | An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession |
| perceptual constancy | Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change |
| perceptual adaptation | In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or inverted visual field |
| perceptual set | A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another |
| human factors psychology | A branch of psychology that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be adapted to human behaviors |
| extrasensory perception (ESP) | The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input - said to include telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition |
| parapsychology | The study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis |
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