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Perceptions
selection
organization
100
the process of using the senses to acquire information about the surrounding environment or situation
What is Perception?
100
The tendency to expose yourself to information that reinforces, rather than contradicts, your beliefs or opinions.
What is selective exposure?
100
The grouping of stimuli into meaningful units or wholes.
What is organization?
200
Perception in which your mind selects, organizes, and interprets that which you sense.
What is Active Perception?
200
The tendency, when you expose yourself to information and ideas, to focus on certain cues and ignore others.
What is selective attention?
200
The principle that elements are grouped together because they share attributes, such as size, color, or shape.
What is similarity?
300
Your uniquely constructed meaning attributed to sensed stimuli
What is Subjective Perception?
300
The tendency to see, hear, and believe only what you want to see, hear, and believe.
What is selective perception?
300
The tendency to fill in missing information in order to complete an otherwise incomplete figure or statement.
What is closure?
400
The idea that your past experiences lead you to see the world in a way that is difficult to change; your initial perceptions persist.
What is perceptual constancy?
400
The tendency to remember better the tings that reinforce your beliefs than those that oppose them.
What is selective retention?
400
The principle that objects physically close to each other will be perceived as a unit or group.
What is proximity?
500
Perception that involves a blend of internal states and external stimuli.
What is interpretive perception?
500
The best Professor in the world(hint: she's in the room)
Who is Theresa Hest?
500
The focal point of your attention; and The background against which your focused attention occurs.
What is figure and ground?