Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules)

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Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in
Modules)

• Module 14
• Perceptual Interpretation
• James A. McCubbin, PhD
• Clemson University
• Worth Publishers

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Perceptual Interpretation

• Perceptual Adaptation
• (vision) ability to adjust to an artificially
  displaced visual field
• prism glasses
• Perceptual Set
• a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and
  not another

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Perceptual Set Schemas

• What you see in the center is influenced
  by perceptual set

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Perceptual Set Schemas
Flying Saucers or Clouds?
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Is There Extrasensory Perception?

• Extrasensory Perception
• controversial claim that perception can occur
  apart from sensory input
• telepathy
• clairvoyance
• precognition
• Parapsychology
• the study of paranormal phenomena
• ESP
• psychokinesis

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Perception and the Human Factor

• Human Factors Psychology
• explores how people and machines interact
• explores how machine and physical environments
  can be adapted to human behaviors

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Perceptual Set Human Factors