SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
INFLUENCES ON PERCEPTION
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Selective Attention
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Top-Down Processing
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Bottom-Up Processing
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Change Blindness
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Detailed explanation-1: -Examples of Absolute Threshold Vision-A candle flame 30 miles away. Hearing-A watch ticking 20 feet away. Smell-A drop of perfume in a 6-room house. Taste-A teaspoon of sugar in a gallon of water.
Detailed explanation-2: -For example, when reading a book, even if you are in a quiet room, you require selective attention to focus on the pages and words while ignoring any sort of background noise or action in your periphery.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following is an example of sensory adaptation? When admiring the texture of a piece of fabric, Calvin usually runs his fingertips over the cloth’s surface. He does this because: if the cloth were held motionless, sensory adaptation to its feel would quickly occur.
Detailed explanation-4: -The “absolute threshold of sensation” refers to the minimum intensity of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time. This threshold is not fixed, but varies from person to person and can be influenced by psychological factors, such as expectations, motivation, and alertness.