Unit 2 Vocabulary Test Flashcards

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Perception

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The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory information.

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Bottom-up processing

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

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Top-down processing

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Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations.

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Attention

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An interaction of sensation and perception that is affected by internal and external processes.

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Selective attention

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Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.

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Cocktail party effect

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The ability to focus one's listening attention on a single talker among a mixture of conversations and background noises.

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Inattentional blindness

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Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.

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Change blindness

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Failing to notice changes in the environment; a form of inattentional blindness.

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Perceptual set

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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.

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Gestalt

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An organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.