Unit 2 AOS 2

Question 1

Internal Stimuli

Answer 1

information or sensations that originate from within the body e.g. hunger, experiencing pain

Question 2

External Stimuli

Answer 2

information or sensations that originate from outside the body e.g. things we see, hear, touch or taste

Question 3

Attention

Answer 3

actively focusing on or processing specific information while simultaneously ignoring other information

Question 4

What is the purpose of Attention?

Answer 4

Attention allows us to process our world effectively and efficiently, as there is too much information for us to understand it all

Question 5

Sustained attention

Answer 5

focusing on one specific stimulus/task for a prolonged, continuous period of time

Question 6

Divided attention

Answer 6

involves attempting to split attention across two or more stimuli at the same time

Question 7

Selective Attention

Answer 7

Involves exclusively focusing on a specific stimulus with active ignoring of other stimuli/tasks (distractions)

Question 8

Sensation

Answer 8

the process of receiving and detecting raw sensory information and transmitting it to the brain

Question 9

Perception

Answer 9

the process of selecting, organising and interpreting sensory information in order to give it meaning

Question 10

Visual sensory system

Answer 10

1. Reception: light is detected and enters the retina detected by photoreceptors (rods (shadows) + cones (colours))
2. Transduction: convert light energy into a neural message (or electrochemical signal)
3. Transmission: neural message is sent along the optic nerve, to the primary visual cortex in the occipital lobe
4. Selection: our brain selects certain stimuli to pay attention to while ignoring others
5. Organisation: we group together pieces of stimuli and rearrange to create a whole picture
6. Interpretation: give meaning to sensory information using internal and external cues

Question 11

Bottom-up processing

Answer 11

perception is determined by how the incoming information appears, typically used when the information is unfamiliar to us or is highly complex