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| focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect |
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| failing to see visible obj when our attention is directed elsewhere |
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| the tendency for vision to dominate the other senses |
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| an organized whole (integrating pieces of info into meaningful wholes) |
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| org of visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings |
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| perceptual tendency to org stimuli into coherent groups |
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| ability to see obj in 3D although the images that strike the retina are 2D; allows us to judge distance |
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| Gibson and Walk - a lab device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals |
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| depth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes |
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| binocular cue for perceiving depth; difference between images from both eyes |
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| binocular cue for perceiving depth; how inward your eyes are strained toward an obj |
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| depth cues, such as interposition and linear perspective, available to either eyes alone |
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| an illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession |
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| perceiving obj as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change |
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| in vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced/inverted visual field |
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| a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another |
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| branch of psych that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physcial environments can be made safe and easy to use |
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| ESP (extrasensory perception) |
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| controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input |
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| study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis |
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