3.2_3.3 perception & visual

States that the context (environmental factors) that surrounds an event effects how an event is perceived and remembered

• Context Effects

• Perceptual Set

• Schemas

• Assimilate

• Accommodate

is a tendency to perceive or notice some aspects of the available sensory data and ignore others

• Context Effects

• Perceptual Set

• Schemas

• Assimilate

• Accommodate

- Mental filters or maps that organize our information about the world are called - they can impact our perceptual sets

• Context Effects

• Perceptual Set

• Schemas

• Assimilate

• Accommodate

- interpreting one’s new experience in terms of one’s existing schema

• Context Effects

• Perceptual Set

• Schemas

• Assimilate

• Accommodate

- adapting one’s current understanding to incorporate new information

• Context Effects

• Perceptual Set

• Schemas

• Assimilate

• Accommodate

the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

• Selective Attention

• Cocktail Party Effect

• Sensory Habituation

Phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli

• Selective Attention

• Cocktail Party Effect

• Sensory Habituation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

our perception of sensations is particularly due to how focused we are on them

• Selective Attention

• Cocktail Party Effect

• Sensory Habituation

Failing to notice a change in a previously selected item

• Choice Blindness

• Change Blindness

• Inattentional Blindness

Failing to notice change in the environment around us

• Choice Blindness

• Change Blindness

• Inattentional Blindness