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Perception and Gestalt

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The term "Gestalt" means "whole" or "form." Gestalt psychology describes several principles of organization to explain sensation and perception as the process of grouping individual parts into a more meaningful whole You probably have seen Federal Express trucks rushing to deliver packages, but have you ever noticed the arrow shape in between the "E" and "x" letters? If not, go take at the log on their web site, or you may even have a package or letter laying around. See if you can spot the arrow.

AP Psychology Perception

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Perception If sensation is the bottom-up process of converting environmental energy into central nervous system messages, perception is the top-down process to make sense of those messages. Computers and robots simply detect and respond based on a network of predetermined rules. As humans, our previous experiences, opinions, and expectations mold fundamental sensations into individual perceptions; foods have a personal taste, certain music inspires emotion, colors affect our moods. Selective attention, sometimes labeled the cocktail party effect, is the ability to focus our concentration on specific stimuli. We mask the chaos of surrounding sensations and focus our attention on what we interpret to be important.

Consiousness Walk

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Consciousness Walk Consciousness Walk Decide you are going to do this We will be taking a walk around school with the intention of jogging our waking consciousness The Walk 1. You are to walk alone silently. 2. You are to concentrate on your breathing. 3. As you walk, allow yourself to notice things, thoughts, sensations but always come back to your breathing. 4. If persistent thoughts come into your mind, take notice but return to your breathing. When you return? 1. What thoughts, memories or associations came to mind? Were any persistent? 2. What sounds did you notice? 3. What sights? 4. What physical sensations? 5. What internal feelings?

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Myers Psychology Chapter 6 Vocabulary (6th Edition)

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Selective Attention – the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect. Visual Capture – the tendency for vision to dominate the other senses. Gestalt – an organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasize our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes. Figure-Ground – the organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings. Grouping – the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups. Depth perception – the ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance. Visual cliff – a laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals.

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