PSY321H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Semiotics, Psyccritiques, Counterfactual Thinking
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Psychologists use the term cognition to denote all the mental processes we use to transform sensory input into knowledge. Attention refers to the focusing of our limited capacities of consciousness on a particular set of stimuli, more of whose features are noted and processed in more depth than is true of non-focal stimuli. Sensation refers to the feelings that result from excitation of the sensory receptors (touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing) Perception refers to our initial interpretations of the sensations. Culture is generally viewed as a set of mental representations about the world: mental programming hofstede, like computer software. Priming is a method used to determine if one stimulus affects another. Optical illusions are perceptions that involve an apparent discrepancy b/w how an object looks and what it actually is: often based on inappropriate assumptions about the stimulus characteristics of the object being perceived, e. g.
