Unit 4 Psych Quiz

sensation:

• stimuli from environment, (sight, hear, smell, touch)

• how we organize and interpret sensory

Perception:

• how we organize and interpret sensory

• stimulus from environment

Sensation and Perception is one continuous process (true or false)

Bottom up processing:

• raw data coming to you (seeing something for the first time)

• from experiences/perceptions

Top-Down processing:

• raw data coming to you

• from experiences/ perceptions

Selective Attention

• chooses what to pay attention and what not to (reticular formation)

• listening to a person having a convo on the phone, only hearing half of it

Cocktail party effect:

• our ability to choose what conversation to eavesdrop over the 20 conversations happening

• chooses what to pay attention to and what not to

Half a log:

• listening to a person having a convo with someone on the phone, only hearing half

• our ability to choose what conversation to eavesdrop over the 20 conversations happening

80% of all car accidents: (choose 2)

• cell phone

• listening to music

• texting

people are ___ times more at risk talking/calling:

• 4x

• 3x

• 12x