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Explain the important human characteristics.
Important human characteristics are :
- Perception:
- Definition: It’s how we understand and become aware of our surroundings using our senses like sight, sound, and smell.
- Key points:
- Proximity: Things close to each other seem connected.
- Similarity: Similar traits make us see things as related.
- Matching patterns: Same shapes have the same meaning.
- Succinctness: Simple shapes are easier to remember.
- Closure: Our brain completes incomplete shapes.
- Unity: Closed shapes are seen as a group.
- Continuity: Lines can be mentally extended.
- Memory:
- Definition: Our ability to recall information.
- Components:
- Short-term memory: Processes information for a short time.
- Long-term memory: Stores our knowledge.
- Key points:
- Short-term memory processes one thing at a time.
- Information in short-term memory lasts 10-30 seconds.
- Long-term memory is where our knowledge is stored.
- Learning involves transferring info from short-term to long-term.
- Repetition helps in learning.
- Sensory Storage:
- Definition: The automatic processing of information collected from our senses.
- Key points:
- Unconscious and constantly replaced by new information.
- Acts like radar, scanning the environment for important things.
- Visual Acuity:
- Definition: The eye’s ability to see details.
- Key points:
- Objects become clearer as we look at them and less clear when we look away.
- Optimum visual acuity on a screen is in a small area.
- Foveal and Peripheral Vision:
- Definition: Foveal focuses directly on something, while peripheral senses surroundings.
- Key points:
- Cooperative: Peripheral vision can guide the eye in a visual search.
- Competitive: It can distract and compete with foveal vision for attention.