PSYB57H3 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Notes

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14 May 2011
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Searching is one of the ways to deal with excess input www. notesolution. com. 1: we engage in selective attention which allows us to choose part of the current sensory input for further processing at the cost of other aspects on input. In conclusion, whether too much or too little, cognitive processes are necessary to interpret and understand the material we encounter. How it works: the case of visual perception: vision, like hearing, is a distance sense that helps us sense objects without touching them. Building from the bottom up: from features to objects. Processing features; the building block of perceptions: visual features includes spots and edges, colors and shapes, movements and textures they are the building blocks of perception. In bottom up processing, we look at an object and count the features so that we can figure out the processing that takes place to comprehend the image.