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    1. Biological psychologists are gaining a better understanding of our experiences of sights and sounds‚ meanings and memories‚ pain and passion. Franz Gall invented phrenology‚ a popular theory that claimed that bumps on the skull reveal our mental abilities and our character traits. Although wrong‚ this information revealed that various brain regions have specific functions. 2. A neuron consists of a cell body and branching fibers:The dendrite fibers receive information from sensory

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    SENSATION AND PERCEPTION * One of the basic processes in the interaction of man and his environment that governs the reception of information. * Man must be able to sense‚ interpret‚ and respond to various events and stimulations. The study of reception and function of stimulation may be divided into two parts: * Sensation – considers the mechanism of receiving information * Perception – considers the received information and past experiences. SENSATION * Sensations that can

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    the sensation and perception of a person TOPIC: SENSATION AND PERCEPTION As man lives‚ vast information are continuously accepted by the senses or sense organs. Every second of life‚ the senses are functioning to connect the internal or physiological body to the external world or vice-versa. Through man’s development in life (from birth to death)‚ the senses are continuously affected by one stimulus after another. The process of accepting the stimulus by the sense is called sensation. The

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    Perception is more than just a sensation” Introduction Sensation is the passive process of bringing information from the outside world into the body and brain. Perception is the active process of selecting‚ organising and interpreting the information brought to the brain by the senses. Sensation and perception are two distinct processes‚ which collaborate to help us make sense of our environment. Perception requires physiological mechanisms and psychological components‚ these combine to help

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    Sensation is how humans process the world around us. We use the basic senses of hearing‚ vision‚ taste‚ touch‚ and smell to do so. Each sense has an absolute threshold that shows what the smallest amount of whatever the stimulus may be is that we can notice. We also possess the ability for our senses to adapt to the world around us. Sensory adaptation allows our senses to adapt because the more we are around a certain stimuli‚ the more familiar we become with that stimuli‚ making our senses less

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    Sensation and Perception How vision (text)‚ audition (text) taste‚ smell‚ and touch work (textbook.) Illusions‚ limbs‚ and blind site. * What is real? * Process of taking in – sensation through senses. Collection of environment extra * Perception- interpretation from environment. Extra * Sensation: converting the stimulus (smell‚ sound‚ ect) as it arrives at receptors in the ears‚ eyes‚ or mouth‚ into neural impulses. * Perception: processing‚ comparing‚ and interpreting

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    Chapter 3‚ Week 4- Sensation and Perception Susan M. Jackson Professor Covington PSY P103 February 4‚ 2013 Chapter 3‚ Week 4- Sensation and Perception Question: See Stroop website‚ take the fun test‚ record your score and answer the following questions. In what way might you apply what you’ve learned to your everyday life? Are there examples of the Stroop effect you’ve observed in the real world? For this forum‚ I decided to take the

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    Psychology Sensation and Perception As we began the experiment‚ there was a tranquil and quiet environment. But as time passed disturbances and laughs were affecting how well I was able to distinguish the food and even the smells. According to the signal detection theory‚ the environment‚ our moods and attitudes play a great role in determining what we can or cannot distinguish. Although I was not able to detect some of the food and smells‚ I was able to distinguish most of them. I believe

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    On the first day of life babies go through many things. Sensations perceptions play a big role in a newborn first day of life. Acorrding to Discovering the Life Span defins sensation as the physical stimulation of the sense organs. (pg. 108) Perception is the sorting out interpretation analysis and integration of stimuli involving the sense organs and brain. (Feldman pg. 108) Visual perception is how you see the world. A newborns distance visual can range from 20/200 to 20/600. With a newborns vision

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    Sensation and perception are two terms that are related‚ but that each one has a different meaning. Sensation refers to the feeling we experience in response to information received through our sense organs. Sensation is also the basic immediate experiences generated by single isolated stimuli. On the other hand‚ perception is the way our body is organized to interpret those feelings; recognition of objects that comes from combining the sensations with the memory of previous sensory experiences.

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