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Unit 3: Part 4: Other Senses and Influences on Perception Flashcards

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Gustation

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taste

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Olfaction

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smell

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Kinesthesis

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voluntary movement - sensing position/movement of ind. body parts

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Vestibular Sense

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sense of balance - tied to hearing

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Pain

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gate control theory - spinal cord

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Touch

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pressure, warmth, cold, pain

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Sensory Interaction

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one sense may influence another

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Embodied Cognition

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how the senses, gestures, and other states influence cognition

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Clairvoyance

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perceiving remote events or images

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Telekinesis

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mind-to-mind communication

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Precognition

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knowledge of future events before they occur

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Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

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controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensroy input

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Parapsychology

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the study of paranormal phenomena

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Perceptual Set

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a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and no another; through experience we come to expect certain results

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Schemas

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mental frame work for organizing and understanding the world around us

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Influences of Perception

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Expectations, Stereotypes, Context, Motivation, Emotion

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Key Idea of IoP

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top-down processing, our personal experiences, assumptions and expectations can shape and color our views of reality

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Gestalt Principles

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an organized whole

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Figure and Ground Principle

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our brain wants to perceive an object as distinct from its surroundings

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Proximity

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people tend to organize objects close to each other into a perceptual group and interpret them as a single entity

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Continuity

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the quality or state of being unending or connected into a continuous whole

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Closure

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the illusion of seeing an incomplete stimulus as though it were whole

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Similarity

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people tend to organize objects with similar qualities into a perceptual group and interpret them as a whole

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Connectedness

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the thought that even though each person is their own distinct, physical being, people are also connected to each other and nature, not by language but just by having a deeper sense of being

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