Something you cannot be aware of, knowledge you are not paying attention to or thinking about.
What is Unconscious?
100
Light receptor cells that can see white and shades of grey.
What are Rods?
100
Associations between nodes of information that create mental networks.
What is Long Term Memory
100
A major event in history often credited with the advancement and recognition of Human Factors Design.
What is World War II?
100
Items close to each other are considered related.
What is Proximity?
200
The term for the part of our brain that has the ability to interpret, analyze, plan, strategies, cope and execute on the fly, but requires taxing, focused, conscious mental effort.
What is New Brain or Cerebral Cortex?
200
Light receptor cells that can distinguish colors.
What is Cones?
200
The number of chunks we can hold in working memory at one time.
What is 4 plus or minus 1?
200
Fields of study that Human-Computer Interaction pulls from (at least 2).
What is Psychology, Sociology, Cognitive Science, Art, Design, Engineering, Anthropology, or Ergonomics?
200
Items that appear the same feel grouped or part of a pattern.
What is Similarity?
300
Because of these, we perceive what we expect to perceive.
What are Past Experiences, Present Context, and Future Goals
300
The three types of cones sensitive to different wavelengths of light.
What is Blue, Green and Red?
300
Activating a neural network pattern without perceptual input.
What is Recall?
300
Jobs that people in the User Experience industry may hold. (at least 2)
What is Interaction Design, Information Architecture, User Research, Graphic Design, Behavioral Design?
300
We tend to fill in the gaps when pieces of a whole are missing.
What is Closure
400
A field that became recognized in the 40's and 50's for creating human efficient designs without interfaces.
What is Ergonomics?
400
The area of the retina with the highest density of rods and cones.
What is Fovea?
400
Temporary activity in the neural network, that is discarded when we are done using it.
What is Short Term or Working Memory?
400
An expectation of an end condition, whereas both activities and tasks are intermediate steps that help someone reach a desired result.
What are Goals?
400
We create a relationship between things that move in the same direction.
What is Common Fate?
500
A concept introduced by Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi where the a person loses all sense of time and is fully immersed in an activity.
What is Flow?
500
The three stages of visual processing.
What is Bottom-Up, Pattern Processing, and Top Down
500
What you are intently and actively thinking, and can last up to 10-20 seconds.
What is Locus of Attention?
500
A users schema, understanding, or belief of how something works.
What is Mental Model?
500
We perceive smooth paths that continue rather than disconnected segments.