PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Long-Term Memory, Computer Data Storage, Short-Term Memory
29 Jan 2013
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Perception visual perception; process of encoding, organizing, and interpreting info that enters the cognitive system through the senses; result = inner representation of stimulus. Context plays important role in visual perception. Context effects in visual pattern recognition sometimes used to illustrate top-down processing already stored mentally influences what we see /how we interpret; info coming into system influenced by what we already know/expectations. Context effects also found in word recognition i. e. can read scribbled writing because of surrounding letters that give clues to identity of scribbled letters. Letters that appeared in words actually receive more activation than letters in isolation letter in context of word = more accurately recognized and remembered. Most people show a facilitative effect of the complete word in recognizing individual letters of that word. If were wholly true, individual letters should be recognized better and faster than words with multiple letters.
