Chap. 6 Perception

Question 0

The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

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Selective attention

Question 1

The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory information, which enables us to recognize meaningful objects and events

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Perception

Question 2

Your ability to attend to only one voice among many.

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Cocktail party effect

Question 3

Failing to see visible objects when your attention is directed elsewhere

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Inattentional blindness

Question 4

After a brief visual interruption you fail to notice the changes in your visual field

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Change blindness

Question 5

The failure to notice slight changes in our auditory field

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Change deafness

Question 6

The failure to noticed our selection of a particular stimulus has changed

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Choice blindness

Question 7

Exhibiting denial to falling victim to a hypothetical experiment.

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Choice blindness blindness

Question 8

When a strikingly distinct stimulus, draws our eyes

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Pop-out phenomenon

Question 9

A perception as of visual stimuli (optical illusion) that represents what is perceived in a way, different from reality.

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Illusion

Question 10

The tendency for vision to dominate other senses

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Visual capture

Question 11

An organized whole, gestalt psychologist emphasized our tendency to intergrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes

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Gestalt

Question 12

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

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Figure -ground

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The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

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Grouping

Question 14

The perceived nearness or distance ;ability to naturally group each other

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Proximity

Question 15

We group together figures that are alike

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Similarity

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We perceive smooth continuos patterns rather than disconnected

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Continuity

Question 17

Instead of seeding separate objects, we see one whole unit

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Connectedness

Question 18

We fill in the gaps to create a complete whole object

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Closure

Question 19

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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Depth perception

Question 20

A laboratory device used for testing depth perception in infants and young animals

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Visual cliff

Question 21

Depth cues such as retinal disparity and convergence that depend on the use of two eyes

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Binocular cues

Question 22

By comparing images from the two eyeballs the brain computes distance, the greater the disparity between the two images the closer the object

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Retinal disparity

Question 23

A binocular cues for perceiving depth the extent to which the eyes move inward;looking at an object the greater the inward strain, the closer the object

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Convergence

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Depth cues available to either Eyes alone

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Monocular cues

Question 25

In judging distance the one that cast the smaller retinal is perceived as further away

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Relative size

Question 26

If one object particularly blocks our view of another we perceive it as closer

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Interposition

Question 27

Because light from distant objects passes through more atmosphere we perceive hazy objects as further away than sharp clean objects

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Relative clarity

Question 28

A gradual change from a coarse distinct texture to a fine indistinct texture signals increasing distance. objects far away appear smaller, and more densely packed

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Texture gradient

Question 29

We perceive objects higher in our visual field as farther away

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Relative height

Question 30

As we move objects that are actually stable may appear to move, the near the object is to you, the faster it seems to move

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Relative motion

Question 31

Parallel lines such as railroad tracks, appear to converge, with distance the more the lines converge the greater the perceived distance

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Linear perspective

Question 32

Nearby objects reflect more light to our eyes, given two identical objects the dimmer one seems farther away

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Light and shadow

Question 33

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

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Phi phenomenon

Question 34

Perceiving objects as unchanging Even as illumination and retinal images change

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Perceptual constancy

Question 35

In vision the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field

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Perceptual adaption

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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

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Perceptual set

Question 37

Through experience we form concepts that organize and interpret unfamiliar information

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Schemas

Question 38

A branch of psychology that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be made safe and easy to use

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Human factors psychology

Question 39

The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input; said to include telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition

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Extrasensory perception

Question 40

The study of paranormal phenomena including ESP and psychokinesis

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Parapsychology

Question 41

Brain perceives continuous movement in rapid series of slightly varied images

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Stroboscopic movement

Question 42

The environmental factors that surround an event effects how an event is perceived and remembered

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The context effect