8A Attention and 8BPerception
Multitasking is an example of this
What is divided attention?
Shape, size and brightness are all examples of these
What are visual constancies?
Selection, organisation and interpretation are all stages of this
What is perception?
Soy sauce, miso and vegemite would all be consider this
What is umami?
What do you mean they're the same height?!
What is the Ames room?
Knowing that an elephant is large, grey, has a trunk and large ears
What is a schema?
A biological factor that predominantly impacts males
What is colour blindness?
Culture and education are examples of this
What are social factors?
Taste buds are located within these
What are papillae?
You won't find this in any old berry!
What is miraculin?
Our attention is captured by the most unpredicable or unfamiliar stimuli
What is the uncertainty principle?
Objects further away take longer to move across the visual field than those that are closer
What is motion parallax?
A gradual reduction in detail as objects recede into the distance
What is texture gradien?
a blind product test will test for the impact of this on taste perception
What is food packaging?
A fussy eater might also be known as this
What is a super taster?
resource depletion or mindlessness may explain a reduction in this
What is sustained attention?
Mad eye moody would find these very difficult
What are binocular depth cues?
Gestalt principles are very useful during this stage
What is organisation?
chocolate can be considered more sweet due to this
What is shape?
A unique, one-way process that is automatic and cannot be controlled
What is synaesthesia?
E.g. You’re running out the door to meet a friend for lunch. As you walk to your car, a brisk breeze hits your face. The sky is dark, and you hear thunder. You’d better grab an umbrella!
What is bottom up processing?
E.g. You're watching a gymnastics competition with Simone Biles, who notices more small mistakes in technique of the athletes than you do.
What is perceptual set?
It's not just something you'd book for a holiday!
What is accomodation? (Bonus 200 points for explaining the process)
They're the basis of determining someone's sensitivity to taste
What are genes?
This perceptual distortion may also be considered a fault of top down processing
What is associative agnosia?