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What is sensation

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How stimuli are detected.

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What is Attention

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A cognitive process that selects what we percieve.

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What is conscious perception

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Awareness of aspects of the environment through the integration of sensory information + prior stored info.

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What is unconscious perception?

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Where sensory info is processed below the conscious level.

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What is Semantic Memory?

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General memories built from multiple episodic memories.

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What is episodic memory

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Particular events for each individual experience.

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What is attention

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the process of selecting what to attend to by cogntive means.

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What is Selective attention

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A conscious cognitive process of controlling attention - this can involve other cognitive processes like expectancy.

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In what way does expectancy affect attention

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If there is an element of expectancy then attention will be selectively focused on that area.