2025 Unit 2 Perception (Module 2.1)

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The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events

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Perception

Front

Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors (external information) and works up to the brain’s integration of sensory information

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Bottom-Up Processing

Front

Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes (internal information) as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations

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Top-Down Processing

Front

The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

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Selective Attention

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Failure to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

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Inattentional Blindness

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The ability to tend to only one voice among many

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Cocktail Party Effect

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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

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Perceptual Set

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Failure to notice change in the environment

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Change Blindness

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Your brain stops paying attention to things that do not change. However; as soon as that thing changes it recaptures your attention.

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Habituation

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The tendency to perceive an incomplete figure as whole

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Closure