Perceptual Influences
Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus
What is Selective Attention?
Integrating pieces of information into an organized whole, or form
What is Gestalt?
A mental image or best example of a category
What is a Prototype?
A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
What is Algorithm?
Judging the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory-- "I did well on the last AP test so I will do well on this one!"
What is the Availability Heuristic?
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
What is Inattentional Blindness?
The organization of a visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings
What is Figure-Ground?
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
What is a Schema?
A mental shortcut
What is Heuristic?
Judging the likelihood of events in terms of how well they represent a particular prototype
What is a Representative Heuristic?
Failing to notice changes in the environment (a form of inattentional blindness)
What is Change Blindness?
The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups
What is Grouping?
Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
What is Assimilation?
A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions
What is Confirmation Bias?
The tendency to be more confident than correct
What is Overconfidence?
A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another
What is one's Perceptual Set?
The two examples of binocular depth cues
What are Convergence and Retinal Disparity?
Adapting our current schemas to incorporate new information
What is Accommodation?
The inability to see a problem from a new perspective
What is Fixation?
Name at least four examples of Gesltalt Grouping principle
What are Figure-Ground, Similarity, Proximity, Continuity, and Closure?
The primary ways that Perceptual Set influences how we interpret stimuli
What are Context, Motivation, and Emotion?
An illusion of continuous movement when viewing a rapid series of slightly varying still images
What is Stroboscopic Movement?
Expanding the number of possible problem solutions with "outside the box" thinking
What is Divergent Thinking?
A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way
What is Mental Set?
Name at least 5 monocular cues
What are Relative Size, Relative Height, Relative Motion (or Motion Parallax), Linear Perspective, Interposition, and Aerial Perspective?
The way an issue is posed (I want to "nudge" you to offer the correct question)
What is Framing?