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Gestalt psych

perception relies on the bigger picture and not the smaller elements

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visual capture

when vision competes w other sentences, it usually wins

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grouping

the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

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grouping principles

  • proximity- united people & seperated groups

  • similarity- rows w diff shapes

  • continuity-

  • closure

  • connectedness

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depth perception

  • ability to see objects in 3 dimensions

  • allows us to judge distance

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visual cliff

a laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals

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monocular cues

require one eye to see

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binocular cue

require two eyes to see

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retinal disparity

images from two eyes differ

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convergence

when two eyes move inward (toward the noise) to see near objects and outwards (away from the noise) to see far away objects

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relative size

if two objects are similar in size, we perceive the one that casts a smaller retinal image to be farther away

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interposition

closer object blocks distant object

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relative clarity

hazy object seen as more distant

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monocular cues

indistinct texture signals an increasing distance

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relative motion

objects closer to a fixation point move faster and n opposing direction to those objects that are farther away from a fixation point moving slower and in the same direction

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linear perspective

parallel lines such as railroad tracks appear to converge in the distance, the more the lines converge, the greater their perceived distance

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light and shadow

nearby objects reflect more light into our eyes than more distant objects. given two identical objects, the dimmer one appears to be farther away

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phi phenomenon

when lights flash a certain speed they tend to present illusions of motion

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motion perception

when something travels far away, it decreases in size and when it travels closer, it increases in size

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perceptual constancy

perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal image change

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size constancy

stable size perception amid changing size of the stimuli

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color constancy

perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color even when changing illumination filters reflected by the object

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ponzo illusion

converging lines indicate that top line is farther away than bottom line

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perceptual adaptation

visual ability to adjust to an artificially displaced visual field

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perceptual set

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schemas

concepts that organize and interpret unfamiliar information

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bottom up processing

what we actually see/ hear, then making sense of it in the brain (starts w/ sensation)

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top down processing

what we expect, social/ context clues determine the meaning (starts w/ perception)

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psychophysics

study of the relationship between physical characteristics of stimuli and our psychological experience w/ them (light- brightness)

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absolute threshold

the minimal amount of sensory stimulation needed for a sensation to occur

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signal detection theory

predicts how and when we detect the presence of a faint stimulus signal amid background noise

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difference threshold

minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection fifty percent of the time

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accommodation

involves body changing ( eyes adjusting to light )

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adaptation

literally our brains don’t attend to things that stay the same

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transduction

converting one form of energy to another

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phototransduction

conversion of light energy into neural impulses that the brain can understand

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wavelength

hue/color

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intensity

brightness

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saturation

purity

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hue

dimension of color determined by the wavelength of the light

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wavelength

distance from the peak of one wave to the peak of the next

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intensity

amount of energy in a wave determined by the amplitude

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acuity

the sharpness of vision

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cornea

the outer covering of the eye

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pupil

adjustable opening in the center of the eye

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iris

a ring of muscle that forms the colored portion of the eye around the pupil and controls the size of the pupil opening

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lens

transparent structure behind the pupil that changes shape to focus images on the retina

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accommodation

the process by which the eye lens changes shape to help focus near oor far objects on the retina

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nearsightedness

a condition in which nearby objects are seen more clearly that distant objects

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farsightedness

condition in which faraway objects are seen more clearly than near objects

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retina

back of eyeball, where image is protected

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optic nerve

carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain

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blind spot

point where the optic nerve leaves the eye because there are no receptor cells located

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fovea

central point in the retina around which eye cones cluster

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rods

  • peripheral retina

  • detect black white and grey

  • twilight or low light

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cones

  • near center of retina

  • fine detail and color vision

  • daylight or well lit conditions

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feature detectors

cells that see certain aspects of the future

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parallel processing

simultaneous processing of several aspects of a problem

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trichromactic theory

helmholtz suggests that the retina should contain 3 receptors that are sensitive to red, blue, green

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addition of colors

if three primary colors (light) are mixed the resulting is white

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