Perception

• Attention is defined as our level of awareness directed towards certain stimuli to the exclusion of other
• Selective attention is focusing on a single activity while disregarding other environmental stimuli
• Divided attention refers to distributing attention to allow the process of two or more stimuli at the same time.
• Perception refers to the process of giving meaning to sensory information, resulting in our personal interpretation of that information
• Top down processing - Automatically processing sensory information by applying prior knowledge and expectations
• Bottom up processing - Automatically processing sensory information by starting with the most significant details and then integrating them to form a bigger picture