PSYCH 112 Lecture Notes - Parallel Computing, Absolute Threshold, Cocktail Party
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Perception brain"s interpretation of raw sensory inputs. Bottom up processing information processing driven by stimulus data only: processing in which a whole is constructed from parts. Top down processing conceptually driven processing influenced by beliefs and expectancies. Parallel processing the ability to attend to many sense modalities simultaneously, color, shape, motion. Perceptual constancy perceive stimuli similarly across situations: color constancy way darkness/lightness influences color, size constancy depth perception, shape constancy angles of where you look at something, it remains the same shape regardless. Selective attention process of selecting one sensory channel and ignoring or minimizing others: cocktail party effect we have certain attunements to draw our attention to something of importance.
