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    Sense of touch

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    Sense of Touch/Feeling The Skin Senses Consider the skin has remarkable versatility: It protects us against surface injury‚ holds in body fluids‚ and helps regulate body temperature. The skin also contains nerve endings that‚ when stimulated‚ produce sensations of touch‚ pain‚ warmth and cold. Like several other senses‚ these skin senses are connected to the somatosensory cortex located in the brain’s parietal lobes. The Somatosensory Cortex The skin’s sensitivity

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    Human Senses

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    Our senses enable us to make sense of the world around us; they make our environment enjoyable by stimulating our desire to eat giving the body the vital nutrients it needs. They can also alert us to a fire before we see the flames‚ detect dangerous fumes and smell and taste rotten foods. Out of the five senses‚ it seems like taste is one of the simplest. There are no cones; rods or lenses‚ there are no tympanic membranes or miniscule bones. Our sense of smell in responsible for about 80% of

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    The 5 Senses

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    The results when I asked people what sense would they rather lose were as follows: two people for hearing‚ two people for taste‚ and then one person for touch. The two people who choose hearing had about the same explanation for why they lose that one. The two people that also choose taste also had the same explanation for choosing to lose that sense. I was surprised when I asked the fifth person which they would rather lose an they choose touch‚ because for me‚ that is one I would hate to lose.

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    Sense and Communication

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    . Berlo’s model of communication operates on the SMCR model. David Berlo’s S-M-C-R (Source-Message-Channel-Receiver) Model is the simplest and most popular message-centered model of communication. It is essentially an adaptation of the Shannon-Weaver model. ← Stresses on the role of the relationship between the encoder and the decoder. ← Shift of Emphasis from the transmission of the message to the message itself. ← Highlights the role of the encoder and the decoder and how it affects

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    SENSE PERCEPTION

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    before we learned how to use language‚ reason‚ or emotions to further our knowledge‚ we used our senses. As toddlers we used our sight‚ smell‚ taste‚ touch‚ and hearing to make sense of our surroundings. The evolution of knowledge is mostly because of sense perception. The most primitive versions of ourselves‚ for example the cavemen‚ heavily survived off of sense perception alone. They knew by their senses that certain plants‚ animals‚ weather‚ etc. separated life and death. Now scientists and inventors

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    Sense of Perception

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    Sense Perception Our five senses are important sources of knowledge that actively structure our knowledge about the world rather than passively reflect reality. They are ‘the gates and windows’ of the mind that controls communication between the outside world‚ and ourselves presenting us with different variety of the world. Using our senses to be aware of things is defined as our Perception. We do not realize that perception plays a bigger role than what it may seem‚ playing a more active process

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    5 Senses

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    The five senses are an important area for students to learn about because it is a topic and an area that affects all of us. “A learning strategy is a series of steps that can be repeated over and over to solve a problem or to complete a task” (Echevarria). This will be a weeklong lesson plan over the five senses using different learning strategies for the students to use in order to receive and understand as much information as possible. Students will learn one sense a day. “Aristotle (384 BC

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    Sixth Sense

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    ------------------------------------------------- Shauri Yuen P. Ebba August 14‚ 2013 The Sixth Sense: A Research Paper on ESP Extrasensory perception (ESP) is commonly referred in layman‘s terms as the ‘sixth sense’ because it occurs independently of the five subtle senses we have (sight‚ smell‚ hearing‚ etc). Basically‚ ESP involves reception of information not gained through our physical senses but rather through the mind. This ability of the mind involves mental telepathy‚ clairaudience and

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    Senses and Stimuli

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    Sensory Adaptation SSCI206-1103A-17 Florence Bresnahan Week Two American Intercontinental University Introduction Sensation is described as the stimulus of the reactors that our brain receives whenever we utilize any of our five senses such as hearing‚ seeing‚ smelling‚ tasting‚ or touching. Sensory adaptation occurs when the "continued presence of that same stimulus results in a loss of sensitivity" (ref). In order for the brain to continue to experience the stimulus‚ "a stronger stimulus

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    Sense and Essay

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    nytimes.com/2008/07/18/opinion/18fri4.html?_r=1 1. Explain how the author describes the wind in three sentences? Provide one quote from the essay. 2. Copy down at least three descriptions that connect to at least three of the following senses: a. visual b. taste c. hearing d. touch e. smell 3. Write down the author’s main point. Actually copy his main point from the essay so I can see that you see his thesis. 4. What are five words (diction) that you find

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