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