CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY - CHAPTER 8
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS. VERIFIED 2025/2026.
Cognition - Answer✔A term denoting all mental processes we use to transform sensory input
into knowledge.
Attention - Answer✔The focusing of our limited capacities of consciousness on a particular set
of stimuli, more of whose features are noted and processed in more depth than is true of
nonfocal stimuli.
Sensation - Answer✔The feelings that result from excitation of the sensory receptors such as
touch, taste, smell, sight, or hearing.
Perception - Answer✔The process of gathering information about the world through our
senses; our initial interpretations of sensations.
Priming - Answer✔A method used to determine if one stimulus affects another.
Holistic Perception - Answer✔Context dependent perceptual processes that focus on the
relationships between objects and their contexts.
Analytic Perception - Answer✔Context-independent perceptual processes that focuses on a
salient object independently from the context in which it's embedded.
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EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS. VERIFIED 2025/2026.
Cognition - Answer✔A term denoting all mental processes we use to transform sensory input
into knowledge.
Attention - Answer✔The focusing of our limited capacities of consciousness on a particular set
of stimuli, more of whose features are noted and processed in more depth than is true of
nonfocal stimuli.
Sensation - Answer✔The feelings that result from excitation of the sensory receptors such as
touch, taste, smell, sight, or hearing.
Perception - Answer✔The process of gathering information about the world through our
senses; our initial interpretations of sensations.
Priming - Answer✔A method used to determine if one stimulus affects another.
Holistic Perception - Answer✔Context dependent perceptual processes that focus on the
relationships between objects and their contexts.
Analytic Perception - Answer✔Context-independent perceptual processes that focuses on a
salient object independently from the context in which it's embedded.
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