Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.

Inattentional Blindness

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewere

Failing to notice change in the environment; a from of inattentional blindness.

a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.

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

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

The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups.

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

A labratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals.

A depth cue, such as retinal disparity, that depends on the use of both eyes.

A cue to a nearby objects distance, enabled by the inward angle of the eyes.

A binocular cue for perceiving depth by comparing retinal images from the 2 eyes, the brain computes distance-- the greater the disparity between 2 images, the closer the object.

A depth cue, such as interposition or linear perspective, available to either eye alone.

stroboscopic movement

An illusion of continuous movement (as in a motion picture) experienced when viewing a rapid series of slightly varying still imges.

An illusion of movement created when 2 or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession.

The illusory movement of a still spot of light in a dark room

Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent color, brightness, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change.

Perceiving familiar objects having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the object

Perceptual adaptation

The ability to adjust changed sensory input, including an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field.

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Perception Vocab

Question	Answer
Selective Attention	Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.
Inattentional Blindness	Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewere
Change Blindness	Failing to notice change in the environment; a from of inattentional blindness.
Perceptual set	a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.
Gestalt	An organized whole Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
Figure-ground	The organization of the visual field into objects (the figures) the stand out from their surroundings (the ground)
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 labratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals.
Binocular cues	A depth cue, such as retinal disparity, that depends on the use of both eyes.
Convergence	A cue to a nearby objects distance, enabled by the inward angle of the eyes.
Retinal Dispairity	A binocular cue for perceiving depth by comparing retinal images from the 2 eyes, the brain computes distance-- the greater the disparity between 2 images, the closer the object.
Monocular cue	A depth cue, such as interposition or linear perspective, available to either eye alone.
stroboscopic movement	An illusion of continuous movement (as in a motion picture) experienced when viewing a rapid series of slightly varying still imges.
Phi Phenomenon	An illusion of movement created when 2 or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession.
Autokenetic effect	The illusory movement of a still spot of light in a dark room
Perceptual constancy	Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent color, brightness, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change.
Color Constancy	Perceiving familiar objects having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the object
Perceptual adaptation	The ability to adjust changed sensory input, including an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field.

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