affordances

• Visual affordance: Visual cues, such as color, shape, or texture, that provide indications of how an object or design can be used
• so gibson argued that indviduals can use other objects perceived directly from the enviroment as cues
• monocular depths cues are visual indicators that help us perceive depth and distance in our environment
• occulison are nearby objecst that block the view of distance objecst like a tree occludes the bottom part of a mountain helping us judge its distance
• height in visual feild refers to how distant objects appear higher in the visual feild
• relative size shows how images are perceived as futher away wheras smaller ones are close r
• motion parallax shows how nearby objects move faster across the visual field whereas distant ones move slower
• Dichotic listening is a psychological test that assesses how people process auditory information
• Dichotic listeningIt involves simultaneously presenting different sounds to each ear, and then asking the participant to focus on one ear.
• cherry in 1953 cocktail party phenomeon studies the ability to foucs on a particular audio stream while filtering out others in a noisy event