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| perceptual set | your mental predisposition to perceive one thing but not another. Our perceptual set can change: what we see, feel, taste, and touch. |
| (perceptual) constancy | tendency of animals and humans to see familiar objects as having standard shape, size, color, or location |
| size constancy | the ability to perceive an object as being the same size despite distance; |
| shape constancy | a type of perceptual constancy in which an object is perceived as having the same shape when viewed at different angles |
| brightness constancy | the tendency to perceive a familiar object as having the same brightness under different conditions of illumination |
| schemas | concepts that organize information in our experiences. |
| context effects | has to do with top-down processing and the brain going back in time, allowing a later stimulus to determine how we perceive an earlier one |
| cultural effects | tells us what is important to notice, what is funny or offensive, and changes our perception to make the stimulus fit what we think it should be |
| divided attention | occurs when mental focus is on multiple tasks or ideas at once |
| selective attention | focus on particular input for further processing while simultaneously suppressing irrelevant or distracting information |
| selective inattention | a perceptual defense in which anxiety-provoking or threatening experiences are ignored or forgotten |
| Cocktail Party effect | the ability to focus one's attention a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli |
