Me 2.1a Perception: Influences on Perception Flashcards
Our consciousness can only concentrate on 1 important thing from our experience. The attention is brought by our unconscious radar.
Selective attention
Our ability to concentrate on a a particular stimuli and filter out other stimuli.
Cocktail Party effect
Our attention shifts extremely frequently, and it causes a slight delay in our coping.
How fast does our attention shift and what does it do?
failing to see other visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.
Inattentional Blindness
A form of inattentional blindness. Failing to notice that something has changed.
Change Blindness
Our perceived world is our brain’s explanation of incoming sensory information.
Seeing is believing and believing is seeing.
A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another. Expectations can cause us to perceive what we expect and not what we feel.
Perceptual set
Context, motivation, and emotion causing expectations.
What causes perceptual sets?
relies on external sensory information. —> Sensory stuff sees
Bottom-up processing
influenced by our internal prior expectations. —> Brain sees
Top-down processing
