Exam 2 Study Guide Flashcards

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What is sensation?

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receiving, translating, and transmitting messages from the outside word to the brain

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What is perception?

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Organizing and interpreting information received from the outside world

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What is the bottom up process?

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driven by sensory information, relies on sensory input
- Ex: A person seeing a picture for the first time and concluding. (There were no preconceived notions)

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What are top down processes?

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driven by knowledge, expectations influenced by perception
- Ex: A person is told what to think about a photo before being shown it. They are likely to be influenced by other peoples thinking

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What is the goal of perception?

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to provide people with relevant information for interacting with the world

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What is the Cocktail Party Affect

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  • the ability to focus on one auditory stimulus while ignoring others
  • Ex: Your at a noisy party and there’s a lot of noise and people. But someone says your name and you suddenly hear .
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What is the process of attention?

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Input, Sensory, Perception, Short Term Memory

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What is Dichotic Listeing?

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When do streams of information are being told to a person and they only pay attention to one side

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What is the Early Selection Model?

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We figure out early what we are going to pay attention to

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What is the Late Selection Model?

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All information sent forward and selection happens at short term memory stages

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What is Divided Attention?

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Two sources of information and we want to respond to both at the same time
- Ex: Phones in the car

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What is Capacity Theory?

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Their is a general limit to the amount of mental work a person can preform. A persons ability to preform multiple tasks depends on the capacity required

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What is the Stroop Effect?

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When you have words that are different colors people will take longer to name the color than the word

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14
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Is attention a skill or a process?

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A family of processes

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