Csu psy 252 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Top-down processing - ️️Context/Knowledge/Expectations. Quick educated guess. Could be wrong. Pareidolia is the perception of some specific image in an ambiguous stimulus array. Expectations create schemas- which are mental representations of what we know, and have come to expect, about the world. Can bias creating a perceptual set. Motivation can affect perception/bottom-up processing. See a dog because you expect to see a dog. Parallel Distribution Processing (PDP) models/connections...

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Psychology's intellectual parents correct answers philosophy and physiology Wilhem Wundt () correct answers made psychology an independent discipline credited with being the founder of psychology 1879 correct answers birth of psychology Psychology according to Wundt correct answers the scientific study of conscious experience Stanley Hall () correct answers contributed to psychology's rapid growth established first research laboratory for psychology in America at John Hopkin...