Chapter 6

Question 0

Inattentional Blindness

Answer 0

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

Question 1

Selective Attention

Answer 1

The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

Question 2

Change Blindness

Answer 2

Failing to notice a difference in our visual field

Question 3

Change Deafness

Answer 3

The failure to notice slightly different changes to the auditory field

Question 4

Choice Blindness

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Choice Blindness Blindness

Answer 5

Exhibiting denial to falling victim to a hypothetical experiment

Question 6

Pop Out Phenomenon

Answer 6

Some stimuli are so different that they demand attention

Question 7

Illusion

Answer 7

A perception of visual that represent what is perceived in a way different from reality

Question 8

Visual Capture

Answer 8

The tendency for vision to dominate over other senses

Question 9

Gestalt

Answer 9

An organized whole

Gestalt psychologists focus on our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes

Question 10

Figure Ground

Answer 10

The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings

Question 11

Grouping

Answer 11

Our brain follows certain rules for grouping stimuli together

Question 12

Proximity

Answer 12

The closeness of two or more things means that we group them together

Question 13

Similarity

Answer 13

We group together similar things

Question 14

Continuity

Answer 14

Seeing the world as a continuous scene rather than many pictures

Question 15

Connectedness

Answer 15

Seeing things as two crossing lines rather than four lines that meet a one point

Question 16

Closure

Answer 16

We perceive incomplete things as blocked because we want things to have closure

Question 17

Depth Perception

Answer 17

The ability to see objects in 3 dimensions

Allows us to judge distance

Question 18

Visual Cliff

Answer 18

A lab device used to test depth perception in infants and young animals

Question 19

Binocular Cues

Answer 19

Depth Cues processed in both eyes together

Question 20

Retinal Desparity

Answer 20

A binocular cue for perceiving depth

Question 21

Convergence

Answer 21

Our eyes turn inward in order to see objects near to us

Question 22

Monocular Cues

Answer 22

Processed separately in each eye

Question 23

Relative Size

Answer 23

Two objects similar in size and the smaller will appear to be farther away

Question 24

Interposition

Answer 24

Perceiving images farther or closer based on their position in an image, blocked images are farther away

Question 25

Relative Clarity

Answer 25

Hazy objects will be perceived as farther away and clear will be closer

Question 26

Texture Gradient

Answer 26

Texture is more detailed when it is closer

Question 27

Relative Hight

Answer 27

Objects higher in our visual field are perceived as farther away

Question 28

Relative Motion

Answer 28

When we are moving, stationary objects seem to move also

Question 29

Linear Perspective

Answer 29

Parallel lines appear to converge in the distance

Question 30

Light and Shadow

Answer 30

Nearby objects reflect more light with distance

Question 31

Phi Phenkmenon

Answer 31

When flashing lights cause the illusion of movement

Question 32

Perceptual Constancy

Answer 32

We perceive object as the same even if the light or angle changes

Question 33

Perceptual Adaptation

Answer 33

Adjusting to displaced or inverted visual field

Question 34

Context Effects

Answer 34

The effect of your surroundings on your visual field

Question 35

Perceptual Set

Answer 35

A mental predisposition of one thing over another

Question 36

Schema

Answer 36

A concept of framework | Organizes and interprets info

Question 37

Human Factor Psychologists

Answer 37

Study humans and their interactions and errors with machines

Question 38

Extra sensory Perception

Answer 38

ESP | Perception without stimulus input

Question 39

Parapsychology

Answer 39

Telepathy Clairvoyance Precognition