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| the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus |
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| You can only attend to one voice among many |
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| Failing to see visible objects 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. Tendency to integrate pieces of info into meaningful wholes |
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| System needs to recognize figure as distinct from its "ground" |
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| We group nearby figures together |
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| We group figures together that are similar to one another |
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| Smooth, continuous patterns as opposed to discontinuous ones |
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| We perceive linked things as a single unit |
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| We fill in gaps to create a complete, whole object |
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| The ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are 2-D |
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| Testing depth perception in infants and young animals |
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| Depth cues that depend on the use of two eyes |
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| By comparing images from the two eyeballs, the brain calculates distance- the greater the difference, the closer the object |
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| the greater the inward strain of the eyes, the closer the object |
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| Depth cues available to either eye alone |
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| appearance of movement in a static image |
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| Continuous motion is perceived in a rapid series of slightly varying images |
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| Created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession |
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| Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change |
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| ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field |
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| mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another |
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| Explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be made safe and easy to use |
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| claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input |
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| study of paranormal phenomena |
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| we perceive smaller objects as being farther away |
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| if one object partially blocks our view of another, we see it as closer |
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| we perceive hazy objects as farther away |
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| gradual change from coarse-> fine = increasing distance |
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| objects higher in our field of vision are farther away |
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| stationary objects appear to move backwards |
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| parallel lines appear to converge with distance |
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| nearby objects reflect more light to our eyes |
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