Psych Unit Three

What is Sensation?

• Sensation refers to the process of sensing our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell.

• refers to how the mind process information

• refers to how we store information

Perception can be defined as-

• how we perceive different things

• how we interpret the information from the external world

• how we sense things from the external world

Absolute threshold refers to

• The maximum stimulation required to say anything

• minimum usage of sense organs

• The minimum stimulation necessary to detect a particular stimulus

What is Signal Detection theory?

• Ability to detect various sounds and colors is always the same for everyone

• Ability to detect stimuli depends on motivation and training

• Absolute threshold/JND = difference threshold

Top down processing refers to

• refers to the information coming from a height like top of a table

• Top-down processing refers to the use of contextual information in pattern recognition.

• refers to the information coming down from a height

The word Gestalt means

• Whole/shape/form

• Psychonanalysis

• mind

• behaviour

Key elements of gestalt psychology are

• our mind fills in the gap

• Mind seeks to avoid uncertainty

• The whole is identified before the parts

• all of the above

Identify the Gestalt law

• Law of Symmetry

• Law of Singularity

• Law of Similarity

Identify the Law

• Law of Similarity

• law of proximity

• Law of continuation

Identify the next Law

• Law of Closure

• Law of focal point

• Law of Good figure