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Color constancy?
Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the objects
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Perceptual adaptation?
In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field
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Perceptual set?
A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another
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Extrasensory perception (ESP)?
Controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input; includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition
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Parapsychology?
The study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis
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Continuity?
Organize stimuli into smooth, continuous patterns
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Promimity?
Grouping items that are close to eachother
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Similarity?
Grouping of itemss that look alike
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Connectedness?
Tendency to perceive uniform or attached items as a signal unit
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Closure?
Prinicple that we fill in gaps to create a complete, whole object
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Olfaction?
Chemical sense, like taste or smell, no distinct receptor for each detectable odor
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