Unit 3 - Module 21: Influences on Perception

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Grade 12 (Unit Three - Sensation and Perception) Psychology Fichas sobre Unit 3 - Module 21: Influences on Perception, creado por Greg MacPherson el 05/01/2022.
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Unit Three- Module 21 Perception: Influences on Perception Perception: Influences on Perception
Selective attention The focussing of our conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. Through selective attention, our awareness focusses on a minute aspect of all that we experience.
Cocktail Party Effect The ability to attend to one of several speech streams while ignoring others, as when one is at a cocktail party.
The Stroop Effect The delay in reaction time between congruent and incongruent stimuli. For example, the time it takes a participant to name the colour of ink in which a word is printed is longer for words that denote incongruent colour names than for neutral words or for words that denote a congruent colour.
inattentional blindness Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.
inattentional deafness The failure of unattended auditory stimuli to register in the consciousness.
change blindness A phenomenon of visual perception that occurs when a stimulus undergoes a change without this being noticed by its observer.
change deafness A phenomenon of auditory perception that occurs when a stimulus undergoes a change without this being noticed by its observer.
pop-out effect One or more basic features will mark a stimulus as distinct from the other stimuli, hence allowing the target to be easily detected and identified regardless of the number of distractors.
choice blindness The inability to detect a change between an object/image we have chosen and a similar object/image.
perceptual set A mental predisposition to perceive one thing over another. In other words, it is a set of mental tendencies or assumptions that affects, top-down, what we hear, taste, feel, and see.
perceptual schema A schema is a mental model that provides a frame for interpreting information entering the mind through the senses or for activating an expectation of how a particular perceptual scene may look. They allow us to organize and allow us to interpret unfamiliar information.
context Context refers to the situation or circumstances in which an event occurs.
context effect Context effect is an aspect of psychology that describes the influence of environmental factors on one's perception of a stimulus. The impact of context effects is considered to be part of top-down processing.
motivation Motivation is the process that initiates, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behaviours. Motivation involves the biological, emotional, social, and cognitive forces that activate behaviour.
emotion Emotions are psychological states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioural responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure.
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