Perception - Module 2.1

Front

This type of psychology emphasizes our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.

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Gestalt psychology

Front

This is when we focus our conscious awareness on a specific stimulus.

Back

selective attention

Front

This is when we fail to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.

Back

inattentional blindness

Front

This is the failure to notice changes in the environment.

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change blindness

Front

This is a classic example of selective attention - you're having a conversation with one person in a large room with lots of other people talking at the same time and you hear the mention of your name and immediately change your focus to the person who said your name.

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Cocktail party effect

Front

A set of mental tendencies and assumptions that affects, top-down, what we hear, taste, feel, and see.

Back

perceptual set

Front

Information processing that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information.

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Bottom-up processing

Front

Information processing guided by higher mental processes to construct our perceptions, relying on our prior experience and expectations.

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Top-down processing

Front

These are internal factors that filter and influence our perceptions of the world around us.

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Schemas and perceptual sets

Front

A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

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schema