The Phenomena of Perception and Attention
Christina Vega
American Military University
Abstract
In this paper, you will find the answer to the phenomena of perception and attention. “Attention is the process of concentrating on specific objects of the environment or on certain thoughts or activities” (Goldstein, 2011). Selective hearing is the exclusion of other features of the environment where limited hearing is in capacity and timing. There are a few theories of attention such as the Broadbent’s filter model, which we will be discuss in this paper. “Perception is the process of recognizing, organizing, and interpreting information from senses” (Goldstein, 2011). Perception is not an exact copy and can be based on an experience
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Every day people all over the world are executing perception or attention traits. This goes for everyone regardless of gender, race, age we all as humans engage in these act daily. “Attention is the process of concentrating on specific features of the environment or on certain thoughts or activities” (Goldstein, 2011). Think about it from newborns to adults regardless the age you are paying attention to something. A newborn can be paying attention to his or her mother while an adult is paying attention to their child. Perceptions comes from stimuli in the environment. “Perception is the process of recognizing, organizing, and interpreting information from senses” (Goldstein, 2011). The parts are identified and put together, and then recognition occurs. These are examples of direct perception theories. Constructive perception theories are when people put together something in their head on how something should go based on expectations or a previous memory. In the complexity of perception there are two process one being the bottom-up process and the top-down …show more content…
We simply cannot process and respond to all the information in the environment that may be relevant to our current task. We can’t even completely inhibit distracting information” (Scalf, Torralbo, Tapia, & Beck, 2013). The older we get the more we are prone to thinking about our attention span seriously. Back when we were still children and in school being told by our parents to pay attention more in school some tend to think they may have some kind of learning disorder when in fact it normal. Yes, there are children and adults around the world that suffer from learning or attention disorders but they are not always the answer. As we become older, we learn who we are and what we enjoy so we tend to go places or surround ourselves with people who interest us or have similarities with. The law of limited attention is when a person can pay attention to only two, or at the most, three things at one time. When we try and multi task on let’s say more than three things at once we are already stretching our attention too thin. If we try to add a fourth task to focus on that will become the most important while the other get put on the back burner. Some psychological research indicates some can pay attention to seven things at once. This does not contradict the principle; it only changes the numbers. Many people tend to confuse limited and
The first thing that I learned about perception was earlier discovered by a psychologist by the name of Max Wertheimer. He discovered that our body clearly separates images into figures
Kidnapping, murder, and stalkers terrify someone people, but not Clare. She is the girl with magic powers, the one who worked with the police force last summer, the one who is best friends with the new hot senior, Clare. In the book Perception by Kim Harrington. Clarity (also known as Clare) is the main character of the story that deals with a big conflict that put her own life in a dangerous situation. Messages and gifts from a secret admirer crop up everywhere Clare turns.
Perception is defined as “the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information.” Perception is a cognitive and psychological process and the way we perceive people can affect our communication. We can respond differently to a person we perceive favorably, as opposed to someone unfavorably. Humans also pay attention to salient information. Salience ties into this because we tend to find salient things that are visually stimulating to our needs and interests.
The human brain is capable of perceiving and interpreting information or stimuli received through the sense organs (i.e., eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin) (Weiten, 1998). This ability to perceive and interpret stimulus allows the human being to make meaningful sense of the world and environment around them. However, even as the human being is able to perceive and interpret stimuli information through all sense organs, stimuli is most often or primarily interpreted using the visual (eyes) and auditory (ears) sense organs (Anderson, 2009). However, for the purpose of this paper, the visual information process will be examined.
Behavioral Inattention Test is intended to display for UVN and afford information related to its treatment. (RMD, n.d.). It consists of a combination of pen and paper tests with observation of behavioral and activity. BIT requires sixty minutes to be completed. The total score of BIT is 227 that means the higher degree the person gets, the greater neglect he/she
I think the perceptual filter, media, had the most impact on how we see the world. In this day and age, we have an app for everything and there’s always gossip on every single one of them. In my opinion the campaigns for the US election was the worst. We had to be pick a president for our country and the two did nothing but bash each other ON THE MEDIA. From the media all I got out of the election was I either had to vote for a man who made women out to be victims and had no respect for them or a woman who should have been in prison already and lies so she looks like a good person. It was terrible.
Human perception is a process of sensing the world by the human brain. This process is firmly influenced by a person’s first culture, which means people interpret the meaning of other’s behavior based on their cultural backgrounds and personal experiences. Racial
This discussion is all about perception and how we look at things. Everyday we use our senses to improve our ability to see, hear, and become aware of something either good or bad. You can also use perception as a way of regarding, understanding, or interpreting something as well. During the watching of this video, there are some key points your wanting to know and understand.
There are times when correlation between variables appears to present an obvious causal relationship, however, it is irresponsible for both researchers and the news media to produce predictions without looking for alternate factors. A good example is decades of reporting on the relationship between single-mother households (independent variable) and rising crime rates (dependent variable). The preceding example was explored by Philip Cohen (2012) in his article on the single mom and murder rate relationship during the 1990s, in which he noted, “I think single mothers—especially those who were raising kids back in the 1990s—deserve an apology from the conventional-wisdom purveyors of that time” (para. 2). Beginning with an exploration of the media’s interpretation of this relationship, I will also further examine the correct interpretation, and the policy implications of Cohen’s finding.
Vision is the most important sensory compared to other sensory modality therefore there is a wide range of research carried out on vision. Visual attention is defined as a term that portrays how individuals are able to change their view while attending to an image that is of a normal perspective due to the neurones in the cortex (Carasco, 2011). It is often described as a focal point which is situated with different locations in the region of space (Wright, 1998). Visual search requires detecting a specific target as quickly as possible. For example, trying to find your car in a large car park. By focusing our attention to the specific environment it improves our visual search of the target (Keane et al., 2015). The speed of a visual search
The sensory channels provide us with a huge amount of information, therefore in order to concentrate not all the information can be processed. Selective attention refers to the mechanism whereby mental processing is focused on a specific stimulus. Much psychological research has tried to uncover how attention is managed. This essay will focus specifically on the ‘early’ versus ‘late’ selection theory controversy. The basis of this debate stems from Cherry’s (1953) dichotic listening experiments. An early selection model, such as Broadbent’s Filter theory suggests information is discarded early in the stream of processing. Conversely Deutsch and Deutsch (1963) late selection model proposes unattended information is processed at
In our Cognitive Processes class, individuals participated in a study to determine the relationship between individual differences in working memory capacity, and inattentional blindness. Inattentional blindness occurs when an unexpected event goes unnoticed to a perceiver, despite the stimuli being presented directly in front of them (Simons, 2013). This is due to the fact that the perceiver may be focusing attention to another stimuli and therefore blocks all unexpected stimuli or ‘distractions’ (Reisberg, 2016). In accordance to Engle and Kane’s proposed theory of attentional control within working memory capacity, those individuals with higher working memory capacity will most likely have missed the unexpected stimuli than those with lower working memory capacity. The theory of the working memory system was introduced by Baddely and Hitch in 1974.
Perception is defined as how you look at others and the world around you. Being able to select, organize and intercept information starts the perceptual process. Perception affects the way people communicate with others. An individual’s pattern of thinking can affect their perception of others. Most people communicate best with people of similar cultures.
Research carried out on attention has mainly been associated with the selective processing of incoming sensory information. It proposes, to some degree, our awareness of the world depends on what we choose to focus on and not simply the stimulation received by our senses. Attention is often linked to a filter that screens out most potential stimuli whilst allowing a select few to pass through into our conscious awareness, however, a great deal of debate has been devoted to where the filter is situated in the information processing chain (Martindale, 1991). Psychologists have made extensive contributions to this subject matter in the past century. Notable examples include Donald Broadbent's filter theory of attention (1958), which set the
Perception is not universal: What a person perceives as true can be false for another person. For example, a book can be red for one man, but for a color-blind person it may be green. Does this mean that because one or many color-blinds perceive the book as such it is indeed green? Furthermore, perception is also affected by external factors: the same experiment under different conditions (temperature for example) can give different results, unbeknownst to the careless researcher