subliminal perception

Examples of subliminal perception in the following topics:

• Unconscious Perception and Influences on Behavior

  • Perception is the process by which the mind selects, organizes, and interprets sensations.
  • Therefore, much of our perception is based on unconscious processes.
  • Subliminal messaging and priming are examples of how information unconsciously influences behavior through perception.
  • This phenomenon demonstrates the power of unconscious information (i.e., the subliminal message) to influence our perceptions (i.e., enhancing the desire for popcorn), which then shape our behavior (i.e., buying movie concessions).
  • The concept of subliminal suggestion depends upon this view of the mind.

• Unconscious Perception

  • We encounter more stimuli than we can attend to; unconscious perception helps the brain process all stimuli, not just those we take in consciously.
  • Unconscious perception involves the processing of sensory inputs that are not selected for conscious perception.
  • This process is known as subliminal stimulation.
  • A number of studies have examined how unconscious stimuli influence human perception.
  • While subliminal stimulation appears to have a temporary effect, there is no evidence yet that it produces an enduring effect on behavior.

• Describing Consciousness

  • Issues of interest include phenomena such as perception, subliminal perception, blindsight, anosognosia, brainwaves during sleep, and altered states of consciousness produced by psychoactive drugs or spiritual or meditative techniques.

• Social Perception

  • Social perception is a kind of perception that allows one to understand other people, social cues, and non-verbal cues in their environment.
  • These perceptions can influence an individual's behaviors and attitudes.
  • Social perceptions of others are compared to self perceptions to give an individual a better understanding of where he or she falls in society.
  • While the most simplistic view of social perceptions involves one individual's perception of another, it can also refer to an individual's perception of a group, a group's perception of an individual, or a group's perception of another group.
  • Describe how perception is linked to the process of social cognition.

• Perceiving Motion

  • Motion perception is the process of inferring the speed and direction of elements in a scene based on visual input.
  • Monocular vision, or vision from one eye, can detect nearby motion; however, this type of vision is poor at depth perception.
  • Motion perception happens in two ways that are generally referred to as first-order motion perception and second-order motion perception.
  • However, this type of motion perception is limited.
  • Due to first-order motion perception, the luminous impulses are seen as a continual movement.

• Perceiving Depth, Distance, and Size

  • Perception of depth, size, and distance is achieved using both monocular and binocular cues.
  • In reality, perception and vision are far more complicated than that.
  • Depth perception is the visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions, coupled with the ability to gauge how far away an object is.
  • Depth perception, size, and distance are ascertained through both monocular (one eye) and binocular (two eyes) cues.
  • The Ebbinghaus illusion illustrates how the perception of size is altered by the relative sizes of other objects.

• Introducing the Perception Process

  • Perception is the set of unconscious processes we undergo to make sense of the stimuli and sensations we encounter.
  • All stages of the perception process often happen unconsciously and in less than a second.
  • Thus, the first step of perception is the (usually unconscious, but sometimes intentional) decision of what to attend to.
  • An ambiguous stimulus may be translated into multiple percepts, experienced randomly, one at a time, in what is called "multistable perception."
  • Rubin's Vase is a popular optical illusion used to illustrate differences in perception of stimuli.

• Cultural Influences on Perception

  • However, our perceptions of our emotions are affected by culture.
  • Two theories of social perception are Attribution theory and Social Comparison theory.
  • Motivational factors also influence perceptions both positively and negatively.
  • The feelings we have influence our perceptions of places, situations, people, objects, etc.
  • Identify examples of how emotions, goals, and culture influence our perception

• Introduction to Social Psychology and Social Perception

  • Social psychology focuses on the importance of individual or social influences on a person's perception of the world around them.
  • Social perception allows individuals to make judgments and form impressions about other people.
  • Social perceptions can influence an individual's behaviors and attitudes.
  • This includes areas like social perception, social interaction, and social influence (including trust, power, and persuasion).
  • There is a strong interest in how perceptions and thoughts, as well as social cues, affect individual behavior in this area.

• Perceptual Constancy

  • Thanks to perceptual constancy, we have stable perceptions of an object's qualities even under changing circumstances.
  • One of the most impressive features of perception is the tendency of objects to appear stable despite their continually changing features: we have stable perceptions despite unstable stimuli.
  • There are many common visual and perceptual constancies that we experience during the perception process.
  • The perception of the image is still based upon the actual size of the perceptual characteristics.
  • The visual perception of size constancy has given rise to many optical illusions.