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| Rods | Retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray; necessary for peripheral and twilight vision, when cones don't respond. |
| Figure-Ground | the organization of the visual field into objects (the figures) that stand out from their surroundings (the ground) |
| Grouping | the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups |
| Adolescence | the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence |
| Emotional intelligence | the ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions. |
| Reinforcer | in operant conditioning, any event that strenghtens the behavior it follows. |
| Biological Rhytms | periodic physiological fluctuations |
| Interaction | the dependence of the effect of one factor (sucha as the environment) on another factor (such as heredity) |
| Maturation | Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. |
| Visual cliff | A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals |
| Long-term memory | the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system |
| Savant Syndrome | a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing. |
| Structured interviews | Interview process that asks the same job-relevant questions of all applicants, each of whom is rated on established scales. |
| Visual encoding | the encoding of picture images |
| Latent Content | according to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream. |
| Selective attention | the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect |
| Hue | the dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light |
| Stranger anxiety | the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age. |
| Imprinting | the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life. |
| Chunking | organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically. |
