Definitions
The psychological process of selectivity, focusing on certain stimuli while ignoring others
What is attention?
This approach applies principles that humans use to influence others through social mechanisms such as social approval, norm activation, or social comparison.
What is the social actor approach?
Number of subdisciplines of psychophysiology are there.
What is three?
The physiological and psychological response to perceived demands or threats
What is stress?
Systems and environments that are designed to change human cognitive processing, attitudes, and behaviours (cf. Fogg, 2003).
What is persuasive technology?
This approach induces direct sensory experiences like sounds, images, scent, and touch to create “presence.”
What is the medium approach?
The two domains of psychophysiological relationships.
What are psychological and physiological?
The division of the nervous system that automatically regulates heart rate, stress, and arousal
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The perversion of everyday life with information technology
What is ambient intelligence?
This approach makes new behaviors easier, tailors information, implements learning schemes that reinforce desired behaviors, provides feedback, and activates social norms.
What is the tool approach?
Psychophysiological relationship with the strongest correlation between the two processes.
What is a one-to-one relationship?
The perspective that argues cognition is shaped by the body and sensory systems rather than existing only in the brain alone
What is the embodied perspective?
The scientific study of social, psychological, and behavioral phenomena as related to and revealed through physiological principles and events
What is psychophysiology?
Technology systems that are designed to change behavior without requiring the user’s conscious attention.
What is ambient persuasion technology?
Two elements where one element (either psychological or physiological) is present if and only if the other is also present.
What are invariants?
The research strategy that combines multiple measures, such as self-report and physiological data, to study the same psychological process
What are convergent operations?
Examining multiple physiological responses as they unfold over time as a single pattern
What is co-occurrence?
Fosters social dynamics that can influence environmental behaviors on a large scale, using group and individual comparison feedback.
What are group interventions?
Concept used to simplify many-to-many relationships into one-to-one relationships in order to draw connections with stronger correlations between psychological and physiological processes.
What is co-occurence?
The term describing how humans percieve, understand, and navigate space using bodily movement and sensory input
What is spatial cognition?