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SENSATION & PERCEPTION

SENSATION & PERCEPTION. SENSATION. Sensation— Experience of sensory stimulation. That is, the basic experience of stimulation of the body’s senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, balance, touch & pain . . PERCEPTION.

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SENSATION & PERCEPTION

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  1. SENSATION & PERCEPTION

  2. SENSATION • Sensation— Experience of sensory stimulation. That is, the basic experience of stimulation of the body’s senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, balance, touch & pain.

  3. PERCEPTION • Perception— Process of creating meaningful patterns from raw sensory information.

  4. ABSOLUTE THRESHOLDS… • Absolute Thresholds—the least amount of energy that can be detected as stimulation 50 % of the time. • Simply put: is the smallest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect • Taste—1 gram of table salt in 500 liters of water • Smell—One drop of perfume diffused throughout a three-room apartment • Touch—The wing of a bee falling on your cheek from a height of 2 centimeters • Hearing—The tick of a watch from 20 feet away in quiet conditions • Vision— A candle flame seen from 30 miles on a clear, dark night.

  5. PERCEPTUAL CONSISTENCY… • Perceptual Consistency— The percentage of times that repeated raw sensory information is processed just as it was before.

  6. How Perceptive Are YOU? • Count the Basketball Passes… • http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/videos.html

  7. UNINTENTIONAL BLINDNESS… • Unintentional Blindness:occurs when a person fails to notice something that is in plain sight. This stimulus is usually unexpected but fully visible. Example: The gorilla experiment

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