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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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.
extrasensory perception (ESP) ESP is the controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input; it includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.
telepathy Telepathy is mind-to-mind communication
clairvoyance Clairvoyance is perceiving remote events, such as a house on fire in another location.
precognition Precognition is perceiving future events such as an unexpected death in the next month.
psychokinesis (telekinesis) Psychokinesis (also known as telekinesis) is the idea of "mind over matter" such a being able to levitate a table.
parapsychology Parapsychology is the study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis.
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