Perceptual Psychology: Attention Processes, Visual Organization & Depth Perception Mechanisms

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What is the term for focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus?

What is the phenomenon called when we fail to see visible objects because our attention is directed elsewhere?

What is the term for failing to notice changes in the environment, a form of inattentional blindness?

What is the mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another called?

What term describes the organized whole, emphasizing our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes?

What is the organization of the visual fields into objects that stand out from their surroundings called?

What is the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups known as?

What is the ability to see objects in three dimensions, allowing us to judge distance, called?

What is the laboratory device used for testing depth perception in infants and young animals?

What is a depth cue that depends on the use of two eyes called?

What is the cue to nearby objects' distance, enabled by the brain combining retinal images?

What is the binocular cue for perceiving depth by comparing retinal images from the two eyes?

What is a depth cue, such as interpretation or linear perspective, available to either eye alone?

What is the illusion of continuous movement experienced when viewing a rapid series of slightly varying images?

What is the illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession?

What is the illusory movement of a still spot of light in a dark room called?

What is the term for perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change?

What is the phenomenon of perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the object?

What is the ability to adjust to changed sensory input, including an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field?

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