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Vocab for Chapter 6 Test

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SELECTIVE ATTENTION
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GROUPING
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DEPTH PERCEPTION
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CONVERGENCE
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GESTALT
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VISUAL CAPTURE
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HUMAN FACTORS PSYCHOLOGY
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VISUAL CLIFF
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PERCEPTUAL SET
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The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups.
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An organized whole. These psychologists emphasize our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
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A binocular cue for perceiving depth; The extent to which the eyes converge inward when looking at an object.
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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.
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The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses.
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A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals.
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The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect.
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A branch of psychology that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be adapted to human behaviors.
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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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Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent lightness, color, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change.
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Depth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes.
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The study of paranormal phenomenon, including ESP and psychokinesis.
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An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession.
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The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input. Said to include telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.
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The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings.
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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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In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field.
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Distance cues, such as linear perspective and overlap, available to either eye alone.

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