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Psych Test #5

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Lateralization   diff. areas do diff. things (language, logic, math) become more efficient  
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Right Hemi   controls left side of body; perception (interpret info as meaningful)  
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Left Hemi   controls right side of body; decision making tasks(language, logic, math) detailed  
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Dominant Function (right hemi)   face processing, emotions, spatial abilities, music/art  
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Face Processing   understand/identify something as a face (people)  
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Emotions   identifying +/- feelings  
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Spatial Abilities   space, parietal  
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Sensation   physical stimulus specific to sensory organs (pick up on physical stimuli)  
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Sensory Organ   eyes, ears, nose, mouth, skin  
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Physical Stimulus   light, sound wave, pressure, temp, pain, chemicals/ molecules  
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Perception   way we organize and interpret stimulus (make sensations meaningful) or the meaning that you place on a sensation  
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sensation and perception difference   sensation=same, basic interpretation perception=different, complex interpretation  
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Detection   sensory organs built to detect physical stimulus  
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Activation of sensory organs   sensation (detection) once you have sensation you can figure out perception  
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if you percept first...   hallucinations/schizophrenia (percept without sensation)  
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sensation then perception   single stimulus OR diff. between stimuli (physical stimulus must be same quality)  
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single stimulus: vision   dark except 1 point of light  
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single stimulus: hearing   silent except 1 sound  
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Sensory Adaptation   decreased sensitivity to repeating/constant stimuli  
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Perceptual Processing   what the brain does w/ info  
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Perceptual Organization   combine into meaningful units (whole object/pattern)  
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Bottom-up processing   (aware of what you're trying to perceive) stimulus then perception; actively construct that perception  
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EX of Bottom-up Processing   -see someone you recognize but can't figure out how/why you know them (sensation but yet to make meaningful) -group talking to each other in Dutch but sounds like English, unexpectedly realizing it isn't English  
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Top-down Processing   cognition imposed perception; drive what we interpret/how we interpret it (driven by knowledge, goals, experience)  
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EX of Top-down Processing   something out of place (washing machine in kitchen)  
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Perceptual Set   basically being biased to have specific perception (ambiguous/unclear situation) EX: someone tells you "look at this thing" vs. "look at this unicorn" one is more biased  
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Contextual Effect   surrounding info influences outcome EX: LO_E (we know the word is love based on present letters)  
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Feature Detection   neurons responsible for specific characteristics(whole object/pattern broken down to individual traits) of stimuli  
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Parallel Processing   pieces active at once (pieces processed/interpreted at once)  
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Gestalt Grouping Principles   various rules for organizing info/input (makes understanding sensations easier) all follow same rules for making objects/patterns resulting in similarities no access to gestalt=difficulty noticing patterns(groups, sounds, etc)  
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Gestalt grouping principles (not definition)   illusory contours apparent motion (videos, movies) explains  
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Attention   things allowing us to focus  
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Selective Attention   choose what to focus on, ignore other things around you (we cannot concentrate on everything) driven by top-down and bottom-up  
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Bottom-Up SA   basic characteristics draw focus EX: jerky movement (overpowers focus)  
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Top-Down SA   driven by knowledge/goals EX: police sirens in songs while driving (immediate change in focus)  
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Inattention Blindness   failure to perceive because of SA EX: failure to notice motorcycles/people while driving because we look for other cars; looking for something in the fridge but not seeing it even though it's there; hear someone tell a story but not listening  
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Figure-ground segregation   organizing input and attention into figure/object figure: object/pattern ground: less defined, background  
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