Perception and Cognition

4. the ability to attend to only one stream of speech in crowded area
8. branch of psychology that emphasizes the whole rather than the parts
10. a group of concepts for what to expect in a given situation
11. failure to notice something that you aren't attending to
13. a mental grouping
15. a mental shortcut
16. the tendency to perceive incomplete forms as complete
17. perceptual process that involves distinguishing a focal point from the background
18. the perception of things close together as a single entity
20. the perception that an object stays the same even as the image that hits our retina changes
21. a predisposition to perceive things in a certain way

1. thinking about thinking
2. changing your schema to include dissonant information
3. concentrating on a limited amount of sensory input
5. incongruence thoughts
6. keeping your schema despite dissonant information
7. a logical rule for solving problems
9. the tendency to group together things with similar qualities
12. the perception of movement when exposed to a series of similar images
14. failure to notice a change that you aren't directly attending to
18. a best example of a concept
19. the theory that your mind is compose of two processing methods (Drew and Gun)