Sensation & Perception

Sensation:

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Perception:

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Our Many Types of Senses (& result if gone):

• Vision

   

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• Audition

   

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• Olfaction

   

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• Gustation

   

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• Tactile

  • touch

   

  • temperature

   

  • pain

     

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• Kinesthetic

   

   

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• Vestibular

   

   

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Themes Across Sensation & Perception:

1. Adaptation:

• color -

   

   

   

  • red-green

  • yellow-blue

  • black-white

  • example: color afterimages

• Temperature -

   

   

  • example: swimming in a cool pool

   

   

  • example: putting cold hands under warm water.

   

   

  • temperature across months -

• Smell -

   

   

  • examples:

    • food smell while cooking

    • smoke smell on clothes

    • perfume

  • if leave the area of the smell for a time and come back, you'll be able to smell it again.

   

• darkness -

   

   

   

  • example: movie theaters

• auditory adaptation -

   

   

  examples:

  • clock ticking in house

  • sound of fan or hum from appliances

  • baseball "ping" from batting cages

2. Constancy:

• Size -

example: man in front and man in back are perceived as being similar heights

• Shape -

examples:

• door

• plates on a table

 

• Brightness -

example: a white t-shirt seen outside at 1 pm vs outside at 8 pm.

 

 

example: checkerboar tiles are seen as same dark and light across entire checkerboard