Monocular Cues
This causes us to perceive hazy objects as farther away than sharp, clear objects
Relative Clarity
Objects or shapes that are close to one another appear to form groups
Proximity
Failure to detect changes in an environment due to a brief visual disruption
Change Blindness
The tendency to perceive little variation in the lightness of objects despite enormous differences in the amount of light falling upon them and in the amount of light reaching the eye from them
Lightness Constancy
Tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups
Grouping
This helps us perceive objects as smaller when they are further away
Relative Size
All else being equal, perception lends itself to seeing stimuli that physically resemble each other as part of the same object, and stimuli that are different as part of a different object
Similarity
Not being aware of their own choice or preferences
Choice Blindness
Tendency to see an object you are familiar with to have the same size and shape despite being closer or farther from you
Perceptual Constancy
Organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings
Figure and Ground Relationship
The farther away something is, the less detail it has
Texture Gradient
Refers to vision and is the tendency to create continuous patterns and perceive connected objects as uninterrupted
Continuity
No self awareness of choice blindness
Choice-Blindness Blindness
Perceiving objects as having the same size even though distance varies
Size Constancy
Taking bits and pieces and forming whole and meaningful objects out of them such as Necker’s Cube
Gestalt Psychology
Parallel lines seem to converge at a distance to convey a sense of depth because of this
Linear Perspective
Refers to the mind’s tendency to see complete figures or forms even if a picture is incomplete, partially hidden by other objects, or if part of the information needed to make a complete picture in our minds is missing
Closure
The inability to detect a change between two voices
Change Deafness
We perceive a shut door and an open one as the same shape, a rectangle
Shape Constancy
The visual cliff was a common experiment for this that showed that infants could estimate distance
Depth Perception