PSYCHOLOGY CH-5 CLASS 11

Sensation, attention & perception are different elements of the same process.

kinesthetic and vestibular senses

the initial experience of a stimulus or an object registered by any sense organ of the body

the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our psychological experience of them

the minimum intensity of stimulation that must occur before you experience a sensation

the smallest detectable difference between two stimuli

process through which certain stimuli are selected from a group of others

The level of vigilance, readiness or caution of an individual.

focusing of awareness on certain specific objects while excluding others for the moment

the form of attention(not process oriented view) wherein the person is centred to something

the form of attention(not process oriented view) wherein the person is away from the centre of attention

the ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input

external factors

FILTER THEORY

FILTER ATTENUATIVE THEORY

MULTIMODE THEORY

stage 1

Also known as vigilance

____is concerned with concentration

Factors affecting_____ 1

The process through which we recognise, interpret and give meaning to the information gathered by sense organs.

up processing

down processing

factors of ___ are as follows :

the process by which sensations are organized into meaningful shapes and patterns

similarity, proximity, continuity, smallness, symmetry, surroundedness & closure are the principles of ______

the visual field or surface in which things exsist, move or can be placed

the process of viewing the world in 3d

in perceiving depth, 2 main sources of information.

also known as psychological cues/pictorial cues that require one eye

the only kinetic & non pictorial monocular cue

depth cues, such as retinal disparity, that depend on the use of two eyes

retinal or binocular disparity convergence accommodation all are some _____cues

perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change

size constancy, shape constancy, brightness constancy are ________

perceptions that misrepresent physical stimuli

illusions occur from an external stimulus situation & generate the same kind of experience in mind also known as ____

includes muller lyer illusion and vertical

illusions that are universal for all

illusions that vary from person to person

when motionless pictures are played back to back to create an illusion of motion. also known as phi phenomenon