PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Cocktail Party, Subjective Constancy, Synesthesia
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Sensory interaction: different senses work together to create experience. The mcgurk effect sounds are misperceived when the auditory and visual parts of the speech are mismatched. Selective attention: the ability to focus on some sensory inputs while tuning out others. The cocktail party effect important stimuli may be processed even when they are not the focus of selective attention. Sensory adaption: decreased sensitivity to stimuli after constant and prolonged exposure, enhances our ability to perceive important changes in the environment. Perceptual constancy: the ability to perceive stimuli as unchanging despite changes in sensation. Synesthesia an experience in which one sensation (e. g. hearing a sound) creates experiences in another (e. g. vision)
