Perception Flashcards

Unit 3

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The process of organizing and interpreting sensory info:

A

Perception

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2
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We must perceive a figure from its ground:

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Form Perception

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3
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Transforms 2D into 3D:

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Depth Perception

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4
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Brain computes motion as images move across the retina:

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Motion Perception

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5
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How we recognize an object:

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Perceptual Interpretation

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6
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The ability to attend selectively to one voice among many:

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Cocktail Party Event

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7
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Inability to see an object or person in our midst

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Inattentional Blindness

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8
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A form of inattentional blindness; when you do not notice when something changes because you are so focused on something else:

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Change Blindness

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9
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What are two perceptual illusions?

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Muller-Lyer and Ames Room

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Muller-Lyer
Tall arch - the ___ dimension of the arch looks longer than the ____ dimension. However, both are the same:

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Vertical; Horizontal

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11
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Designed to demonstrate the size-distance illusion:

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Ames Room

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12
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The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses:

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Visual Capture

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13
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The tendency to integrate pieces of info into meaningful wholes:

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Gestalt

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14
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Gestalt - an ____ ___:

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Organize Whole

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15
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Gestalt Psychologists are fond of the saying that in perception ___ ____ may exceed the sum of its parts:

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The Whole

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16
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People tend to perceive objecs in a simple, orderly way:

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Law of Pragnanz

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17
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The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings:

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Figure-ground

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18
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The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups:

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Grouping

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19
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Group nearby figures together:

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Proximity

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20
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Group figures that are similar:

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Similarity

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21
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Perceive continuous patterns:

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Continuity

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22
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Spots, lines, and areas are a unit when connected:

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Connectedness

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23
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Fill in the gaps:

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Closure

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24
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Depth perception is the ability to see things in ___ and it allows us to judge ____:

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3D; Distance

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Who created the Visual Cliff?
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
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Suggested that human infants have depth perception:
Visual Cliff
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Require both eyes:
Binocular Cues
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Available to each eye separately; used by artistss:
Monocular Cues
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Images from the two eyes differ; closer the object, the longer the disparity:
Retinal Disparity
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Neuromuscular cue; two eyes move inward for new objects:
Convergence
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Convergence The brain uses the ___ at which the eyes are turned to gauge distance:
Angle
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Smaller image is more distant:
Relative Size
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If one object partially blocks another, we perceive it as closer:
Interposition
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Hazy objects are seen as more distant:
Relative Clarity
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Course objects appear closer and fine objects are distant:
Texture Gradient
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Objects higher in our field of vision appear farther away; vertical is longer than horizontal
Relative Height
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Closer objects seem to move faster:
Relative Motion
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Parallel lines appear to converge with distance:
Linear Perspective
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Closer objects appear brighter; shading produces depth:
Light and Shadow (Relative Brightness)
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Objects traveling towards us grow in size and those moving away shirk in size:
Motion Perception
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An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession:
Phi Phenomenon
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The brain will interpret a rapid series of slightly varying images as continuous movement:
Stroboscopic Movement
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Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change:
Perceptual Constancy
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Our brains have a template for everything we need to know and we match what we see to the templates:
Template Matching
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We see what the best example of something is and see if they are close enough to match:
Prototype Matching
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We break down a feature into parts and analyze what it is:
Feature Analysis
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Knowledge comes from inborn ways of organizing sensory experiences:
Immanuel Kant
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Shows our perception is influence by our environment:
Blakemore and Cooper
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Visual ability to adjust to an artificially displaced visual field:
Perceptual Adaptation
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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another:
Perceptual Set
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Concepts that organize and interpret unfamiliar information:
Schemas
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Perceptual sets are determined by what?
Schemas
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Explores how humans and machines and interact:
Human Factor Psychology
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Explores how machines and physical environments can be adapted to human behaviors:
Human Factor Psychology
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The claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input (Sorry, Grandpa):
ESP
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Mind to mind communication:
Telepathy
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Perceiving remote events:
Clairvoyance
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Perceiving future events:
Precogniton
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Mind over matter:
Psychokinesis