PSYCH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 32, 35-38: Congenital Disorder, Cognitive Development, Human Genome Project

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Rahhal Tamara

Document Summary

Gestalt laws of organization- a series of principles that describe how we organize bits and pieces of information into meaningful wholes: like closure, proximity, similarity, and simplicity. Top down processing- perception that is guided by higher-level knowledge, experience, expectations, and motivations. Bottom up processing- perception that consists of the progression of recognizing and processing information form individual components of a stimuli and moving to the perception of the whole. Depth perception- the ability to view the world in three dimensions and to perceive distance. Perceptual constancy- our understanding that physical objects are unvarying and consistent even though sensory input about them may vary. Visual illusions- physical stimuli that consistently produce errors in perception. Subliminal perception- refers to the perception of messages about which we have no awareness. Extrasensory perception- perception that does not involve our known senses. Gender roles- the set of expectations, defined by a particular society, that indicate what is appropriate behavior for men and women.