| A | B |
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| the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect. | selective attention |
| a binocular cue for perceiving depth; the extent to which the eyes converge inward when looking at an object. | convergence |
| an illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession | phi phenomenon |
| perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent lightness, color shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change | perceptual constancy |
| in vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field | perceptual adaptation |
| a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another | perceptual set |
| the controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input | extrasensory perception |
| the study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP, and psychokinesis | parapsychology |
| the tendency for vision to dominate the other senses | visual capture |
| an organized whole. These psychologists emphasize our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes | Gestalt |
| the organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings | figure-ground |
| the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups | grouping |
| the ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distances | depth perception |
| a laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals | visual cliff |
| depth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes | binocular cues |
| distance cues, such as linear perspective and overlap, available to either eye alone | monocular cues |
| a binocular cue for perceiving depth: by comparing images from the two eyeballs, the brain computes distance | retinal disparity |
| a branch of psychology that explores how people and machines and physical environments can be adapted to human behaviors | human factors psychology |
| failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere | inattentional blindness |
