Spatial Orientation

Question 1

Mental models

Answer 1

The combination of knowledge and experience recalled from memory.

Advantages: help in choosing where to direct attention,so decisions can be made instead of instinctive reactions

Disadvantages:incorrect mental models lead to wrong decisoin making

Question 2

Top down bootom up experiences

Answer 2

Previous experiences is used to deal with the new situation

Question 3

Perception

Answer 3

The means by which information is acquired from the environment

Question 4

The perceptual process is the sequence of psychological steps used by individuals to organise and interpret information from the outside world

Answer 4

The perceptual process is the sequence of psychological steps used by individuals to organise and interpret information from the outside world

Perception» a mental processing involving:
~memory
~experience

Sensation&raquo_space;the immediate ,unprocessed stimulation of sensory receptors

Question 5

Perceptual selection

Answer 5

~size : a large size makes it more likely an object will be selected
~intensity: greater internisty,
~contrast: when something stands out
~motion: a moving perception is more likely to be selcted
~repetition :increases percepetual selction
~incongruity: pay more attention to the absurd and bizarre stimuli than to normal stimuli

Question 6

gestalt

Answer 6

An organised whole