Unit 3: Part 4: Other Senses and Influences on Perception Flashcards
Gustation
taste
Olfaction
smell
Kinesthesis
voluntary movement - sensing position/movement of ind. body parts
Vestibular Sense
sense of balance - tied to hearing
Pain
gate control theory - spinal cord
Touch
pressure, warmth, cold, pain
Sensory Interaction
one sense may influence another
Embodied Cognition
how the senses, gestures, and other states influence cognition
Clairvoyance
perceiving remote events or images
Telekinesis
mind-to-mind communication
Precognition
knowledge of future events before they occur
Extrasensory Perception (ESP)
controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensroy input
Parapsychology
the study of paranormal phenomena
Perceptual Set
a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and no another; through experience we come to expect certain results
Schemas
mental frame work for organizing and understanding the world around us
Influences of Perception
Expectations, Stereotypes, Context, Motivation, Emotion
Key Idea of IoP
top-down processing, our personal experiences, assumptions and expectations can shape and color our views of reality
Gestalt Principles
an organized whole
Figure and Ground Principle
our brain wants to perceive an object as distinct from its surroundings
Proximity
people tend to organize objects close to each other into a perceptual group and interpret them as a single entity
Continuity
the quality or state of being unending or connected into a continuous whole
Closure
the illusion of seeing an incomplete stimulus as though it were whole
Similarity
people tend to organize objects with similar qualities into a perceptual group and interpret them as a whole
Connectedness
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
