AP Psychology, Unit 3, Important Vocab

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

• Monocular cues

• Binocular cues

• Figure-ground

• Visual Cliff

The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time

• Intensity

• Absolute threshold

• Difference threshold

• Subliminal

Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation

• Sensory adaptation

• Weber's law

• Inattentional blindness

• Embodied cognition

Below ones absolute threshold for conscious awareness

• Inattentive blindness

• Change blindness

• Selective blindness

• Subliminal stimulation

The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out form their surroundings

• Figure-ground

• Gestalt

• Grouping

• Parallel processing

Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

• Perception

• Selective attention

• Subliminal stimulus

• Inattentional blindness

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

• Extrasensory perception (ESP)

• Accommodation

• Perceptual constancy

• Perceptual set

Retinal receptors that are concentrated near the center of the retina and that function in daylight or in well light conditions. they detect fine details and give rise to color sensations

• Optical nerve

• Cones

• Rods

• Fovea

A visual phenomenon that occurs when continuous rotational motion is represented by a series of short samples

• Stroboscopic motion

• Phi phenomenon

• Perceptual constancy

• Perceptual adaptation

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

• Perceptual adaptation

• Phi phenomenon

• Perceptual constancy

• Color constancy