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Psychology LCCC
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Perception? How do we define it ? | The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. Like the Five senses |
| What is Gestalt Psychology ? | a school of thought that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole. |
| What do Gestalt Psychology explain? | when something is presented to us, we see the "whole" of it instead of it in parts. |
| How do the Organization of closure work? | things are grouped together if they seem to complete some entity. Our brains often ignore contradictory information and fill in gaps in information. |
| What is subliminal perception ? | occur when a stimulus is too weak to be perceived yet a person is influenced by it. |
| What is Distinct Skin Senses? | the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us" |
| How do psychologist define learning ? | changes in observable behavior |
| What is habituation ? | decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated presentations. |
| What is Psychophysics ? | The branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and mental phenomena. |
| What is the difference between Sensation and Perception? | Sensation is the result of your body's senses sensing something ; Perception is how you view your world, what you see and fail to see in it, what you see that isn't there. |
| What is Sensory Adaption ? | a phenomenon in which sensory neurons change their level of sensitivity to a constant stimulus over time. |
| What is procedural memory? | a type of long-term memory of how to perform different actions and skills. Essentially, it is the memory of how to do certain things |
| What is selective attention? | process by which a person can selectively pick out one message from a mixture of messages occurring simultaneously |
| What is Weber's law? | the concept that a just-noticeable difference in a stimulus is proportional to the magnitude of the original stimulus. |
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