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| Unit Three- Module 21 Influences on Perception | Influences on Perception |
| 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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