D PSY345 Cindy Larson r1 Week One Worksheet
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Week One Worksheet
Respond to the following questions in 75 to 150 words each.
1. Differentiate between sensation and perception. Explain the importance of separating these concepts. The differences between sensation and perception is that sensation is the elementary elements that, according to structuralist, combine to create perception. Whereas, perception is the conscious sensory experience (Goldstein, 2014). This student has always looked at sensations as those things in a persons’s environment that one can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and feel. On the other hand perception is how a person’s brain will interpret what is seen, heard, smelt, felt, or touched.
2. Identify the biological factors that influence sensation and perception. Some of the biological factors that influence sensations would be the smell of a fresh baked cinnamon roll, the smell of rubber at a race tract, the touch from a grandchilds hands. Just about anything that a person is experiencing can affect a persons sensation. When a person smells a hot cinnamon roll coming out of an oven and orders one their sensation is how wonderful that cinnamon roll is going to taste and then they take a bite and perception takes over and either the cinnamon roll is as wonderful as they thought it was or they were given one that was baked earlier in the day and their perception has now changed what their initial sensation told them about how wonderful this cinnamon roll was going to taste.
3. As we age or incur visual impairment, we may need brighter light when reading. Explain why this is the case. The reason a person may need brighter light when they get older is because of a condition called presbyopia (old eye). When a person is 20 years old their near point is 10 cm but this will increase to 14 cm around the age of 30, and then to 22 cm around the age of 40, and would you believe it will increase to 100 cm at the age of 60. This occurs because of a hardening
Week One Worksheet
Respond to the following questions in 75 to 150 words each.
1. Differentiate between sensation and perception. Explain the importance of separating these concepts. The differences between sensation and perception is that sensation is the elementary elements that, according to structuralist, combine to create perception. Whereas, perception is the conscious sensory experience (Goldstein, 2014). This student has always looked at sensations as those things in a persons’s environment that one can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and feel. On the other hand perception is how a person’s brain will interpret what is seen, heard, smelt, felt, or touched.
2. Identify the biological factors that influence sensation and perception. Some of the biological factors that influence sensations would be the smell of a fresh baked cinnamon roll, the smell of rubber at a race tract, the touch from a grandchilds hands. Just about anything that a person is experiencing can affect a persons sensation. When a person smells a hot cinnamon roll coming out of an oven and orders one their sensation is how wonderful that cinnamon roll is going to taste and then they take a bite and perception takes over and either the cinnamon roll is as wonderful as they thought it was or they were given one that was baked earlier in the day and their perception has now changed what their initial sensation told them about how wonderful this cinnamon roll was going to taste.
3. As we age or incur visual impairment, we may need brighter light when reading. Explain why this is the case. The reason a person may need brighter light when they get older is because of a condition called presbyopia (old eye). When a person is 20 years old their near point is 10 cm but this will increase to 14 cm around the age of 30, and then to 22 cm around the age of 40, and would you believe it will increase to 100 cm at the age of 60. This occurs because of a hardening
References: Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Sensation and perception (9th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.