Psych Exam 2

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Perception Defined

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“the process by which we become aware of our environment by organizing and interpreting the evidence of our senses.”

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Perception as information processing

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1. not always what we think they are:
2. Sometimes Wrong:
3. Perception verse Sense - Perception can alter what the senses supply.
4. Perceptual illusions: a Movie. .

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How do we modify and manipulate stimuli?

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Attention, Selection, and Perception
Aspects of the perceptual process:
Selection and Organization:

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Stimulus Characteristics

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Change
Repetition
Size
Intensity
Color

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Name Two aspects of the perceptual process:

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Selection and Organization:

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Organization as an element of perception

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WE organize the evidence of our senses.

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The goal of perception

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To make senses out of stimuli

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The Perceiver and perception

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The person determines aspects of perception: past experiences/ physical

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Perceptual Expectations

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We perceive what we expect to perceive
1. Context can influence how one interprets things.
2. Internal Factors (Value, Interest, Fear, Anger)
3. Other people (persuasion VS. manipulation)
4. Extransensory Perception—people receive information through channels other than the senses

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Parapsychology

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the study of psychological events that defy scientific explanation.

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Three forms of ESP

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Mental Telepathy—mind reading
Clairvoyance – ability to perceive an object without using ordinary senses
Precognition—the ability to perceive something that has no yet happened

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Psychokinetic

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the ability to move objects without touching them

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Psychic Healing

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channeling power from a higher source

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Poltergeist

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communicating with ghost or the dead

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Subliminal Perception

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To influence an individual’s behavior by using sense data which is too fast to be consciously perceived.”

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The Genes - The key to heredity

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The key to heredity

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the chromosomes—

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direct development and provide the inherited characteristics of the cells; carry genetic information or personality traits.

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The Genes

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the molecules of DNA; they direct heredity development; the genetic information.

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The Endocrine Glands

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They have a definite effect on behavior can show how people will have different behaviors due to their endocrine glands

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What are Neurons—

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An individual nerve cell; the Basic unit of the nervous system; contains chromosomes and genes.

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What is the central Nervous System

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Brain—brain sends the signal, source of human emotion, stores and retrieves memory.

Spinal Cord—houses the nervous system. Sends information to the brain.

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Altered States of Consciousness

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Dreaming
Hypnosis:
Meditation:
Drugs:

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Four categories of users:

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Insight users,
Social User
Prescriptions user
Release user

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Four major categories of drugs

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Narcotics, depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens

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Emotion

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a personal state which consists of cognitive awareness along with physiological and behavioral change

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Theories of Emotion

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The commonsense theory;
The James—Lange Theory; Cannon-Bary Theory; The Cognitive Theory

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The James—Lange Theory

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Ffeeling follow physiology

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The Cannon—Bart Theory

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stimulants activate the brain stimulates message to the pats of the mind

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The Cognitive Theory

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emotion depends on the physical changes and on mental process that interpret the meaning of the physical change in relation to the present situation