TERM 1
Selective Attention
DEFINITION 1
the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus,
as in the cocktail party effect
TERM 2
inattentional blindness
DEFINITION 2
also known as perceptual blindness, is when a person fails to
notice some stimulus that is in plain sight. aka the basket ball
passers and gorilla
TERM 3
visual capture
DEFINITION 3
the dominance of vision over other senses-watching movie
and sound comes from behind, still perceive as coming from
the screen.
TERM 4
gestalt
DEFINITION 4
German word,seeing things as a whole-salt, illusions..
TERM 5
figure-ground
DEFINITION 5
the organization of visual field into objects (the figures) that
stand out from their surroundings (the ground).
