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)
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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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