Components of Perception

Question 1

Whether or not incoming information is perceived as meaningful influences one's attention to it.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

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Question 2

Inattentional blindness occurs when individuals do not observe certain objects or events because they are focused on something else.

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Question 3

Which of the following statements concerning bottom-up and top-down processing is correct?

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Due to the complexity of the surrounding environment, individuals often use both top-down and bottom-up processing when perceiving.

Question 4

Which of the following statements is not correct concerning the relationship between attention and perception?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Individuals can easily detect changes in the environment when they are absorbed in a task.

Question 5

Explain the difference between bottom-up and top-down processing

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Responses may vary but should include some or all of the following information: Bottom-up processing is a process in feature analysis that occurs when individuals detect specific elements or features of a stimulus, combine the features into more complex forms, and then recognize the stimulus as a whole. Top-down processing occurs when individuals determine or recognize the stimulus as a whole, examine or analyze the features, and then recognize the individual elements. Both processes work together in order to interpret our environment.

Question 6

When one individual perceives the events of a car crash to be different than another person, which of the following will most likely be occurring?

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Individual perceptions could be influenced by differences in prior knowledge or experience.

Question 7

The ability to independently perceive a creature as a “dog” would depend on one’s prior knowledge or experience involving dogs.

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Question 8

Of the following statements, which does not represent variations in one’s perception?

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What is meaningful to one person is meaningful to another.

Question 9

Choice blindness is an example of what can occur when an individual selectively focuses one's attention on a specific event or object.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

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Question 10

Describe how sensation and perception work together.

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Responses may vary but should include some or all of the following information: Perception is the psychological process in which sensory input is organized and interpreted into meaningful information. The sensory and perceptual processes work together so that organisms can make sense out of objects or events that appear in their environment. For example, when looking at a cat, one senses a combination of shapes and colors. The mind instantly processes these visual sensations into something meaningful, letting one know it's a cat.

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