SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
INFLUENCES ON PERCEPTION
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difference threshold
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selective attention
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absolute threshold
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sensory adaptation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Selective attention helps the brain to modulate sound information and to prioritise information over the background noise, such as focusing on one conversation above all others in a crowded room.
Detailed explanation-2: -This type of attention is aroused without the play of will. Here we attend to an object or condition without making any conscious effort, e.g. a mother’s attention towards her crying child, for example, attention towards the members of the opposite sex, and towards bright colours, etc.
Detailed explanation-3: -Also known as selective hearing, the cocktail party effect refers to the ability of humans to focus all their attention on one speaker while tuning out competing and distracting noises in the background.
Detailed explanation-4: -A selective attention example is having a conversation with someone in a crowded, public space. One chooses to focus on what the friend is saying rather than every single noise present in the background. This ability is a phenomenon known as the cocktail party effect.