PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cochlear Implant, Interposition, Temporal Lobe

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

The active process of perception in the environment: two different types of processing to turn sensory information into perceptual; Bottom-up processing: taking sensory information and then assembling and integrating it. Top - down processing: using methods, ideas, and expectations to interpret sensory information. Example of top-down influences: perceptual set: when we see what we expect to see. Attention in perception: attention involves two process, focusing on certain stimuli, filtering out other information, our attention can determine what we perceive, as seen with, divided attention, selective attention. Inattentional blindness: divided attention, multitasking, or paying attention to more than one stimulus or task at a time, eg. talking on a cell phone while driving, selective attention: Involves focusing on one stimulus or task while ignoring other stimuli: selective attention is studied using the dichotic listening task : Stepping man or arrows: ambiguity between figure and ground is the idea behind camouflage.