AP Psych Vocab List 13

Front

A depth cue, such as interposition or linear perspective, available to either eye alone.

Back

Monocular cue

Front

A binocular cue for perceiving depth. By comparing retinal images from the two eyes, the brain computes distance--the greater the disparity (difference) between the two images, the closer the object.

Back

Retinal disparity

Front

A depth cue, such as retinal disparity, that depends on the use of two eyes.

Back

Binocular cue

Front

A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals.

Back

Visual cliff

Front

The ability to adjust to changed sensory input, including and artificially displaced or even inverted visual field.

Back

Perceptual adaptation

Front

Perceiving Familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the object.

Back

Color constancy

Front

Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent color, brightness, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change.

Back

Perceptual constancy

Front

An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession.

Back

Phi phenomenon

Front

The chamber between the eardrum and cochlea containing three tiny bones (hammer, anvil, and stirrup) that concentrate the vibrations or the eardrum on the cochlea's oval window.

Back

Middle ear

Front

A tone's experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency.

Back

Pitch