Unit 3 Pt 3: Sensation And Persception

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Black masking controversy 1980

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Secretly inserting messages when played backwards

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Stairway to heaven activity illustrates the influence of

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Expectancy or set

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Perceptual set is in the

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Top down process

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Perceptual set

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Mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another based on expectations and prior experiences

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Perceptual set based on

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expectations and prior experiences

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Mental set

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Tendency of our problem solving abilities to be influenced by our expectations and prior experiences

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Mental set

Simple words

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We look to solve problems with ways that worked in the past

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Selective attention

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Focus of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

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What does selective attention do?

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Filters out information that you’re not paying attention to

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Attentional blindness

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You don’t see something because you’re not paying attention to it

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Selective attention illustrates attention like

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Cocktail party effect

Only listen to what you want to listen in the party

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Visual capture

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Tendency for vision to dominate the other senses

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Visual capture example

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Old school film project

Mcgurk affect- lip sync assumption

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Visual capture shows

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Sensory interaction

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Gestalt

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An organized whole

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What do gestalt psychologists do?

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Emphasize humans’ tendencies to integrate pieces of information into MEANINGFUL WORDS

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Gestalt simple explanation

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Things are not seen as sum of parts but immediately as whole

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Gestalt principle

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Mind always wants to make stimuli meaningful

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Gestalt principle example

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Reading of jumbled letters

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Grouping

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Perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

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Gestalt grouping principle

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Proximity, similarity, continuity, closure,connectedness

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Proximity

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Tendency to group nearby figures together

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Similarity

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Tendency to group figures that are similar

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Continuity

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Tendency to perceive continuous patterns

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Closure

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Tendency to fill in the gaps in visual information

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Connectedness

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Spots, lines, and areas are seen as unit when connected

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Figure groud relationships

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Tendency to organize information into objects (figure) that stand from their background (ground)

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Figure: Ground:

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Figure: subject/object Ground: surroundings

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Illusionary contours

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We constantly see information so it makes sense to us

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Depth perception

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Ability to see objects in three dimensions

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Depth perception allows us to

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Gauge distance

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Types of depth perception: binocular cues

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Depth perception that rely on the use of two eyes

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Example of binocular cues

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Retinal disparity and | Convergence

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Retinal disparity

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Image of an object from the two eyes differ. | The closer the object, the larger the difference (disparity)

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Convergence

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The eyes converge inward when looking at an object that brain keeps track of to measure distance

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Monocular cues

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Distance cues that are available. Often in art

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Examples of monocular cues: relative size

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Smaller image is more distant

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Examples of monocular cues: Interposition

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Closer objects blocks distant object

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Examples of monocular cues: relative clarity

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Hazy objects seen as more distant

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Examples of monocular cues: texture

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Coarse=close | Fine=distant

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Examples of monocular cues: relative height

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Higher objects seen as more distant

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Examples of monocular cues: relative motion

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Closer objects seem to move faster

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Examples of monocular cues: linear perspective

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Parallel lines converge with distance | Ex: train tracks

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Examples of monocular cues: light and shadow

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Nearby objects reflect more to our eyes

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Perceptual constancy

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Perceiving objects as unchanging, despite changes in retinal image

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Perceptual constancy example

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Door remains constant despite changes when it is opened

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Perceptual constancy factors

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Color, shape, size

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Using monocular cues for distance can often cause

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Us to perceive incorrect information

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Muller-Lyer illusion is

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Culturally specific to western architecture

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Turnbull, an anthropologist argued

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There were cultural influences on depth perception

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Sensory deprivation and perception kittens example

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kittens raised without exposure to horizontal lines later had difficulty perceiving horizontal bars

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Sensory deprivation and perception is that

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Without experience you cannot perceive

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Perceptual adaptation

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(Vision) ability to adjust to an artificially displaced visual field

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Perceptual adaptation example

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Prism glasses, what I used after school

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Extrasensory perception

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Perception can occur apart from sensory input

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Extrasensory perception example

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Telepathy- mind communication Clairvoyance- see in distance without image(Superman) Precognition- tell future or read thoughts

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Parapsychology

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Study of paranormal phenomenon, including ESP and psychokinesis

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Major problem in believing extrasensory perception

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Never been produced in a scientific laboratory