| A | B |
| Stimulus | Any action that changes the activity in an organism. |
| Signal detection theory | takes into account a person's mood and state of mind while perceiving a stimuli |
| Perception | experience caused by stimulation of the senses |
| Psychophysics | study of behavioral aspects of a response to stimuli |
| Monocular Cues | Depth perception cues that require only one eye to be processed |
| Induced Movement | perception of movement of an object that is not moving |
| Illusions | inaccurate perceptions |
| Gestalt Psychologist | developed principles of perceptual organization based on the brain’s perception of a stimulus as a whole. |
| Figure-ground | separation of a pattern into a figure and a background |
| Difference Threshold | degree of change in a stimulus necessary for a person to detect the difference. |
| constructionist view | brain constructs perception out of many sensations |
| Binocular cues | depth perception cues that require the use of two eyes. |