AP Psych Unit 2 Quiz Vocab

focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

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failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

failing to notice changes in the environment; a form of inattentional blindness

a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

an organized whole; these psychologists emphasized our tendency to entegrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes

the organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings

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the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

the ability to see objects in three dimensions, although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance

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a depth cue, such as retinal disparity, that depends on the use of two eyes

a cur to nearby objects' distance, enabled by the brain combining retinal images

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