AP Psych: Unit 3 | The role of attention, experience & expectation in perception

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selective attention

ability to focus on a particular stimulus while ignoring others

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cocktail party effect

in a crowded environment when your name or something relevant is said your attention shifts

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inattentional blindness and change in blindness

failure to see objects, events or a change in one's environment because one's attention is focused elsewhere

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bottom up procesing

using details of a stimulus to guide perception

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top down processing

using prior experiences expectations context to guide perception using very little evidence

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schemas

mental representations created by experience

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perceptual set and priming

tendency to perceive a stimulus in a particular way