AP Psych- Unit 2 - Sections 2.1 & 2.2 Vocab

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apparent movement

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an illusion of motion or change in size of a visual stimulus.

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Attention

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The cognitive process of selectively focusing on a specific aspect of information while ignoring other perceivable information.

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binocular cue

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Depth cues that rely on information from both eyes to perceive depth and distance, such as retinal disparity and convergence.

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Bottom-Up Processing

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An approach to perception that starts with incoming stimuli and builds up to a final perception; involves analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information.

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Change Blindness

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A phenomenon in visual perception where changes in a visual stimulus are not noticed by the observer.

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closure

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One of the Gestalt principles of organization. It states that people tend to perceive incomplete forms as complete, synthesizing the missing units to perceive the image or sound as a whole.

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Cocktail Party Effect

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The phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, like hearing your name in a noisy room.

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convergence

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A binocular depth cue where the eyes turn inward or converge to focus on nearby objects.

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figure-ground

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A gestalt principle of perception where we perceive objects as distinct from their background.

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gestalt

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A German word meaning 'form' or 'pattern,' referring to the perceptual tendency to organize sensory information into meaningful wholes.