Summary Unit 4 Cognitive Psychology.docx PS200 Perception and Attention Purdue University Global PS200 - Unit 4 Assignment This paper is about the how and why we perceive the things in our environment. It breaks down visual perception and the recognition p

Unit 4 Cognitive P PS200 Perception and Attention Purdue University Global PS200 - Unit 4 Assignment This paper is about the how and why we perceive the things in our environment. It breaks down visual perception and the recognition process. It discusses how we take in the stimuli in our environment. As well as the cognitive attention process. It further goes on to talk about the differences between selective and divided attention with examples. This paper is a discussion on our perceptions, those processes, attention, and the difference between selective and divided attention. The cognitive process of perception uses our previous knowledge to gather and interpret the things we see that are registered by the senses (Farmer & Matlin, 2019). In doing so we gather information that we see and hear from our world around us and combine that with what we know from our minds. So, if I see a pen my eyes tak