selection, organization, and interpretation of sensory input

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  Perception Perception, the "selection organization, and interpretation of sensory input" (Weiten, 2007, p. 91) that integrates "meaningful and recognizable messages" (Nairne, 1996, p. 197) is likened to chaos in that the brain transforms sensory

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  Rather, the sensory impulses to the cardiovascular center of the medulla oblongata. Think about it. If any sensory input were consciously noticed, we'd have "sensory overload." We'd go nuts trying to deal with all the input data!

• Percpetual Processes, Sets and Interpetations

  stresses the idea of perception as an active process involving selection, inference and interpretation. Perceptual set is a bias or readiness to perceive aspects of available sensory data and to ignore others.

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  I am sure that what the instructor wants you to do is to analyze the activity you choose in terms of sensory input and interpretation.

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• Explanations of bottom-up and top-down perceptual processes

  Perception, on the other hand, better describes one's ultimate experience of the world and typically involves further processing of sensory input.

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  The beginning of this signal process is a sensory input (vision, touch, etc...).