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gestalt psychology emphasize the tendency to integrate peices of information into meaningful wholes (whole is more than sum of parts-cube in circles)
retinal disparity (binocular cue) one of two binocular cues? brain picks up on different images from each eye
context in perception affects how we percieve or interpret (picture of dead woman, followed by picture of man with blank expression)
esp, telepathy mind to mind communication
esp, clairvoyance perceiving remote events
esp, precognition telling the future
perceptual set predisposition to perceive one thing and not another (lochness pic)
parapsychology perceptual adaptation (tracy adapting to upsidedown world)
convergence (binocular cue) cross eyed, brain percieves something coming toward you
relative size things bigger=closer, things small=far
interposition something blocking=infront of it
relative clarity things fuzzy=far away, things clear/detailed=closer
texture gradient things further apart=close, dense=far
relative height things higher=far away, lower=closer
relative motion (motion paralox) fixate vision above goes your way, below goes opposite way fast
linear perspective parallel lines are far apart=close, parallel lines close to eachother=far from you
light and shading brighter=closer, dark=far

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Creator lyoncm
Created September 21, 2008
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Subject psychology
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