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Vocab VI
Psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 other senses |
| Gestalt | An organized whole |
| 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 |
| Visual Cliff | A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals |
| Binocular Cues | Depth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes |
| Monocular Cues | Distance cues, such as linear perspective and overlap, available to either eye alone; By comparing images from the two eyeballs, the brain computes distance |
| Retinal Disparity | A binocular cue for perceiving depth |
| Convergence | A binocular cue for perceiving depth; the extent to which 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 even 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 | The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input |
| Parapsychology | The study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis |
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