AP Psychology Unit 2 Vocab

focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

failing to notice changes in the environment; a form of inattentional blindness

a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

an organized whole; these psychologists emphasized our tendency to entegrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes

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

the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

the ability to see objects in three dimensions, although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance

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

a cur to nearby objects' distance, enabled by the brain combining retinal images