Perception Flashcards

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Process of interpreting and organizing the incoming information in order that one can understand it and react accordingly

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Perception

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Selective mental process through which the individual brings the selected stimulus in his or her focus of consciousness

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Attention

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Attention has been referred to as

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Allocation

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Requires effort and concentration on a required work

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Voluntary attention

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Requires the potency of the stimulus

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Involuntary attention

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Attention that comes from constant practice

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Habitual attention

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A process in perception where in the person chooses a stimulus to listen to

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Selective attention

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Maintains that the basic perceptual process operates on the basis of a series of principles

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Gestalt law of organization

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Grouping is made based on complete figures

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Closure

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Elements similar in appearance are arranged together

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Similarity

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Items close together are grouped together

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Proximity

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Patterns that are perceived in the most basic and direct manner possible

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Simplicity

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Continuous flow of lines and patterns in one’s awareness

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Continuity

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Process that depends on one’s physiological and psychological cues

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Visual perception

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Two distinct perception errors

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Illusions and hallucinations

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Perceptual experience in which one perceives an image so strangely distorted

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A distortion of the sensory perception and there is no physical stimulus present

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Hallucination

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Illusion of length

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By Miller — Lyer
By Wundt Illusion
By Pongendorff Illusion

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A visual experience that continues after the stimulus has been removed is called

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After image

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Seen just as it was before the image is removed

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Positive after image

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When the color or brightness of the object is a compliment or opposite of the original

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Negative after image

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The process by which one organizes or makes sense of sensory impressions caused by the light, the light strikes one’s eyes

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Visual perception

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The interpretation of sound is referred to

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Auditory perception

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Two things to consider in terms of sound

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Distance
Direction

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Ability to perceive the world in three dimensions
Depth Perception
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Perception of sense of touch; earliest sense to develop in fetus
Haptic Perception
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Haptic is a Greek word _____ meaning ______
Hapne — sense of touch
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It is said that time can be perceived either longer or shorter
Perception of time
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Imagine seeing a person's eyes, nose and mouth but not able to put those pictures together to recognize the person's face
Strange perception problem
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Is a condition marked by difficulty or inability to recognize faces
Prognosia or face blindness
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The transfer of thought from one person to another without the regular use of the senses
Telepathy
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Ability to see without the use of the eyes and can reveal information that may have not been received by ordinary or regular sensation
Clairvoyance
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Ability to foretell future events
Precognition
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Ability to make an object or objects move by thought process alone
Psychokinesis
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Psychological experience beyond the reach of the five senses
Parapsychology
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Sometimes called rebirth. It is said that some people can remember that they had some previous lives
Reincarnation
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Special kinds of perception
Extra sensory perception
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Perception affects our
Behavior Thinking