ps124- introduction to psychology – unit 8 seminar
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PS124- Introduction to Psychology – Unit 8 Seminar
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Perception How we identify and interpret our
sensations and how we organize them into our thought processes
Sensation vehicle through which we take the
information in
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Motivation Culture Upbringing Religion Gender Profession Geography
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Does our perceptions remain relatively stable, or change throughout the lifespan?
Embodied Perception – Profitt’s runner experiment Superbowl phenomenon
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Gestalt –the whole is more than the sum of its parts (unified whole) Figure and Ground Similarity Continuity Proximity Closure The following figures were taken fromhttp://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/
process/gestaltprinciples/gestaltprinc.htm
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Figure Ground – We organize visual images to have a figure, and a background, resulting in an initial image, but upon further examination, the background can become the image
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Similarity – Similar Stimuli tend to be grouped together
Proximity – grouping figures in close proximity to one another
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Continuity – perceiving stimulus in smooth, continuous ways
Closure – filling in the gaps of an image to form a whole unified image
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Five senses Sight Smell Taste Hearing Touch
Failures in our senses Effect on first impressions Sensation disorders – CIPA
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Taste Picky eaters? – Taste Receptors Taste disorders
Smell Pheromones Smell disorders Synesthesia
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Alternate senses can step up and compensate for lost sensation – for example a blind person having an acute sense of hearing
Sensory adaptatoin Why doesn’t my garbage stink anymore?
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