Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 06 Vocabulary
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SELECTIVE ATTENTION | The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect.
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VISUAL CAPTURE | The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses.
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GESTALT | An organized whole. These psychologists emphasize our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
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FIGURE-GROUND | The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings.
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GROUPING | The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups.
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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.
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VISUAL CLIFF | A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals.
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BINOCULAR CUES | Depth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes.
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MONOCULAR CUES | Distance cues, such as linear perspective and overlap, available to either eye alone.
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RETINAL DISPARITY | A binocular cue for receiving depth: By comparing images from the two eyeballs, the brain computes distance - the greater the disparity (difference) between the two images, the closer the object.
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CONVERGENCE | A binocular cue for perceiving depth; The extent to which the eyes converge inward when looking at an object.
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PHI PHENOMENON | An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession.
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PERCEPTUAL CONSTANCY | Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent lightness, color, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change.
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PERCEPTUAL ADAPTATION | In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field.
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PERCEPTUAL SET | A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.
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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.
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EXTRA SENSORY PERCEPTION | The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input. Said to include telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.
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PARAPSYCHOLOGY | The study of paranormal phenomenon, including ESP and psychokinesis.
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