Bell Ringer•Match the term with its definition.

1. Telepathy

2. Psychokinesis

3. Precognition

a. Seeing the future

b. Communicating with your mind

c. Moving objects with your mind

Grudge

Perceptual Set

•The tendency to see one thing and not another.

Gestalt

•Organizing pieces into a meaningful “whole”.

Figure

•The object within a picture.

Visual Cliff

•Test of depth perception in babies.

Interposition

•One object partially blocks our view of another, we see it as closer.

Visual Capture

•The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses.

Phi Phenomenon

•The illusion of motion created by rapidly changing stimuli.

It is not real…no such thing.

•A 1998 research study concluded this about ESP.

Depth Perception

•Seeing two dimensional objects as three dimensional.

Human Factors Psychologists

•These psychologists help design appliances, machines, and work settings to fit our natural perceptions.

Relative Size

•The closer of two same size objects looks closer.

Telepathy

•Communicating with our minds.

Ponzo Illusion

•What illusion is this image demonstrating?

Binocular Cues

•Depth cues that depend on the use of two eyes.

Clairvoyance

•Ability to see remote events, things that happen at another location.

Psychokinesis

•Moving objects with your mind.

Monocular Cues

•Depth cues using either eye alone.

Linear Perspective

•Parallel lines seem to converge in the distance.

Continuity

•We see smooth, continuous patterns and lines.

Precognition

•Ability to see the outcome of future events.

Moon Illusion

•Moon seems larger closer to the horizon than it does overhead.

Texture Gradient

•Closer objects are more coarser, while more distant areas appear more densely packed.

Karl Zener

•He designed cards in the 1930s to conduct experiments to test ESP.

Proximity

•This grouping phenomenon says that we group nearby objects together.

Closure

•We fill gaps to create a complete, whole object.

Shape Constancy

•An object appears to maintain its normal shape regardless of the angle from which it is viewed.

Schemas

•Concepts that organize and interpret unfamiliar information.

Retinal Disparity

•The different view the two eyes have because they are a few centimeters apart.

Muller-Lyer Illusion

•What illusion is this image demonstrating?

Light and Shadow

•Closer objects seem to reflect more light.

Relative Motion

•As we move, objects that are stationary appear to move.

Relative Height

•The lowest objects in our field seem the closest.

Gateway Arch – St. Louis

•This is the largest man-made illusion.

J.B. Rhine

•He is the founder of parapsychology.

Size-Distance Relationship

•Farther objects seem larger.

Circle, Cross, Square, Star, and Wavy lines.

•These are the five shapes found on Zener cards.

Ames Room

•Room designed to manipulate distance cues to create an illusion of two same-sized people appearing very different in size.

Immanuel Kant

•He says perception is inborn.

ESP

•The claim that perception can occur apart from our five senses.

Size Constancy

•An object appears to stay the same size despite changes in the size as it moves farther away.

Hearing

•In a contest between hearing and touch, this wins.

Parapsychology

•The study of paranormal events that investigates claims of ESP.

Ground

•The surroundings within a picture.

Perceptual Adaptation

•The ability to adjust when your vision is changed.

Similarity

•We group together figures that are similar to each other.

Connectedness

•We see the two dots and line as a single unit.

Brightness Constancy

•An object maintains brightness regardless of the amount of light reflected from it.

Convergence

•The inward turning of the eyes that occurs when you look at an object that is close to you.

John Locke

•He argued that perception is learned through experiences.

Relative Clarity

•Closer objects appear sharper than more distant, hazy objects.