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Unit 4 Psychology
Psychology Terms for Unit 4
Question | Answer |
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bottom-up processing | sensory analysis that starts at entry level |
top-down processing | constructing perceptions from sensations coming from bottom-up, and on our expectations and experience |
selective attention | dividing attention between things according to importance |
selective inattention (inattentional blindness) | when something in plain sight is completely unnoticed because attention is directed elsewhere |
change blindness | when something minority visual changes (color) and it goes unnoticed |
sensation | process by which sensory receptors and the nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment |
perception | process of organizing and interpreting sensory information |
psychophysics | relationships |