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Gestalt
- an organized whole
- Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes
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Figure-Ground
the organization of the visual field into objects (the figures) that stand out from their surroundings (the ground)
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Six Methods of Grouping
- Proximity
- Similarity
- Continuity
- Connectedness
- Closure
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Depth Perception
- the ability to see objects in 3D although the images that strike the retina are 2D
- allows us to judge distance
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Visual Cliff
a laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals
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Binocular Cues
depth cues, such as retinal disparity, that depend on the use of two eyes
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Retinal Disparity
- a binocular cue for perceiving depth
- by comparing images from the retinas in the two eyes, the brain computes the distance
- greater the disparity (difference) between the two images, the closer the object
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Monocular Cues
depth cues, such as interposition and linear perspective, available to either eye alone
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