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    Sensation and Perception

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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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    Gender Perception

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    Gender Perception Sex is the biological difference between a man and a woman and the variants in between. Gender is the internal perception of being a male or female‚ and can be displayed to others through the expression of masculinity and femininity. Sex and gender do not always match up.  For example‚ a man may feel that he is a woman trapped inside a man’s body. His sex however is masculine but his gender is that of a woman. All perceptions are filtered through the human brain‚ and the male

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    Sensation and Perception

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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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    Perceptions on Belonging

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    Perceptions of Belonging in our society “We belong … like fish in water. We’re in our environment.” This quote from the New York Times shows the perception of belonging as the idea about connecting to a place‚ person‚ group or a community. ’Feliks Skrzynecki’ by Peter Skrzynecki‚ ’I’m nobody! Who are you?’ by Emily Dickinson and ’The Rabbits’ by John Marsden & Shaun Tan show the concept of belonging as being contrasted towards the New York Times quote‚ showing the alienation and non-existent

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    The theme of the book “Paper Towns” is False Perceptions‚ false perceptions are people who aren’t always who they appear to be or who you expect them to be. Intro: Almost everyone is trying to satisfy society’s standards of excellence but they lose themselves on the way. Following and maintaining a perfect status or wanting to have a faultless outfit every day or dating the captain of the football team for popularity is all categorized under a false perception that is shown to people to judge

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    Human Perception

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    Introduction to human perception “The goal of computer graphics is not to control light‚ but to control our perception of light. Light is merely a carrier of the information we gather by perception.” (Jack Tumblin‚ James A. Ferwerda) Outputs of computer graphics are intended to be observed by human subjects. As human vision has several limitations‚ the knowledge of the human visual system (HVS) and of the human perception can be utilized to improve the performance of various computer graphics

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    Popular Perception

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    Climate Change(ing) Popular Perception One of the biggest‚ but most underrated problems we face in our world today is global warming‚ or as some call it‚ “climate change”. Global warming is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “an increase in the earth’s atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution.” The cause of this warming of the overall atmosphere of earth is anthropogenic‚ or in other words

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    Environmental Health

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    What is Environmental Health? Environmental health is the branch of public health that is concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment that may affect human health. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing and controlling factors in the environment that can potentially affect health. Environmental Health is the field of science that studies how the environment influences human health and disease. “Environment‚” in this context‚ means things

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    Environmental Science

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    Environmental Science and Ethics The case study of A Question of Responsibility: The Legacy of Bhopal described an event that caused a chemical explosion at an agriculture pesticide plant in the capital city of Madhya‚ Pradesh‚ India. A U.S. corporation under the direction of CEO‚ Warren Anderson‚ founded Bhopal Chemical Plant. On December 3‚ 1984‚ the chemical substance that was released into the atmosphere was 40 metric tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) ----- the safety devices did not work to

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    Perception of a Woman

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    Perception of a True Woman The” cult of true womanhood 1820-1860” an article by Barbara Welter‚ identifies the definition and perception of what a “true woman” really is. The author begins the article with how a woman was viewed by men in the nineteenth century‚ as a hostage in the home that men were able to look back at and come home to. While she quickly adds in that we live in a society with changing values‚ a true woman is a true woman no matter where she is and where she is from. Whoever

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