Perception

Question 0

What are the 2 types of cognitive processing?

Answer 0

Bottom up - sensory driven, organises incoming information.

Top down - driven by knowledge, experience and expectation.
Used to determine perception in ambiguous circumstances

Question 1

What are the characteristics of perception?

Answer 1

Perception is more than reception and discrimination of stimuli.

Perception uses high level cognitive processes such as memory and thought.

Question 2

What is the Gestalt precept?

Answer 2

Gestalt suggested organisational trends occur in visual system. Meaningful groupings include, proximity, similarity, continuity and closure.

Question 3

What is the Doors of Perception by Huxley?

Answer 3

Huxley’s Doors of Perception is that the brain and nervous system prevent us from being overwhelmed by large amounts of useless information.

Brain subconsciously selective.

Question 4

What is Rosenhans Context of Madness (1973)?

Answer 4

People were told to pretend to hear voices and were diagnosed with schizophrenia, later discharged with it in remission.

Shows perceptions and expectations can be challenged