Chapter 6 Flashcards
What is sensation
How stimuli are detected.
What is Attention
A cognitive process that selects what we percieve.
What is conscious perception
Awareness of aspects of the environment through the integration of sensory information + prior stored info.
What is unconscious perception?
Where sensory info is processed below the conscious level.
What is Semantic Memory?
General memories built from multiple episodic memories.
What is episodic memory
Particular events for each individual experience.
What is attention
the process of selecting what to attend to by cogntive means.
What is Selective attention
A conscious cognitive process of controlling attention - this can involve other cognitive processes like expectancy.
In what way does expectancy affect attention
If there is an element of expectancy then attention will be selectively focused on that area.
