PSYC304
WEEK 1 TO WEEK 8 FORUM
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FORUM 1
INTRO AND PROCESS
Part II: Processes in Perception
The cognitive processes in perception concentrates in understanding and producing the necessary
responses to an extern
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PSYC304
WEEK 1 TO WEEK 8 FORUM
100%
FORUM 1
INTRO AND PROCESS
Part II: Processes in Perception
The cognitive processes in perception concentrates in understanding and producing the necessary
responses to an external stimulus. The different brain structures have their specific function to
understand the external stimulus and creates the necessary reactions to it. Bottom-up and top down
processing refers to the direction in which the perception travels. In bottom-up processing the
process of perception starts from the receptors organs below the brain, while top-down processing
starts in the brain and finish with an action or reaction to the presented stimulus (Saylor Academy,
2012).
A great situation that I can use as example is my first paranormal investigation. In this investigation I
was at Maria's apartment. Maria is a Hispanic female around her 50s, that claimed more than one
time that she saw a black wolf in the guest room in her apartment. The description of the wolf that
she gave us was mostly a black mass with red eyes. With this description already in my head and
with the adrenaline pumping in my body, I was already seeing this wolf in my head.
After my helper and I turned off the lights and started to do infrared sweeps, we did not find anything.
We decided to separate; once I found my self alone, in the corner of my eye I saw a black mass, at
that moment I jumped in look to my right. I was able to just barely detect the stimuli producing the
effect of absolute threshold of a sensation. At the moment my bottom-up processing started with the
perception of the black mass by my visual organs, that went to my brain, and the image of the black
wolf with the red eyes came from my long term memory usually stored in my frontal cortex (Saylor
Academy, 2012). Acco
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