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Psychology LCCC

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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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