Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 06 Vocabulary
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| SELECTIVE ATTENTION | show 🗑
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| show | The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses.
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| show | An organized whole. These psychologists emphasize our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
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| show | The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings.
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| show | The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups.
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| show | 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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| show | A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals.
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| show | Distance cues, such as linear perspective and overlap, available to either eye alone.
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| show | 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 | show 🗑
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| show | An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession.
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| show | Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent lightness, color, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change.
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| PERCEPTUAL ADAPTATION | show 🗑
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| PERCEPTUAL SET | show 🗑
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| HUMAN FACTORS PSYCHOLOGY | show 🗑
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| show | The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input. Said to include telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.
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| PARAPSYCHOLOGY | show 🗑
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