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Selective attention
focusing our conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.
 Cocktail-party effect
the ability to focus one's attention a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli
Inattentional blindness
Failing to see visible objects when are attention is focused elsewhere
Change blindness
Failing to notice changes in the environment
Perceptual set
a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.
Gestalt
a German word meaning a “form” or a “whole.”
Proximity
group objects that are close together as being part of same group
Similarity
objects similar in appearance are perceived as being part of same group
Closure
like top-down processing, we fill gaps in if we can recognize it
Figure-ground
the organization of the visual field into objects (figures) that stand out from their surroundings (the background).
Depth perception
organize three-dimensional perceptions that allow us to estimate that object’s distance from us.
Visual cliff
experiments by Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk. Infants were coaxed to cross what appeared to be drop, most of whom refused to do so, indicating that they understood depth.
Monocular cue
a depth cue that is available to either eye: Linear Perspective, Interposition, Relative Size, Relative Height, Relative Clarity, and Light/Shadow
Binocular cue
a depth cue that depends on the use of two eyes.
Retinal disparity
a binocular cue for perceiving depth by comparing the retinal images from each eye and computing the distance between the two images
Stroboscopic Effect
a rapid series of slightly varying images perceived as moving images (flip book, “old” movies)
Phi Phenomenon
illusion of movement created when two or more-lights next to each other blink on and off
Autokinetic Effect
perceptual phenomenon where a stationary point of light appears to move in a dark environment due to small eye movements
Perceptual constancy
the ability to perceive objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change.
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