1 / 10

Monday, October 18 th , 2010

Monday, October 18 th , 2010. Objective: Develop an understanding of our senses review of where we are going this unit discussion of our senses discuss absolute and difference threshold Do Now: Write down our senses and each one’s purpose

dustin
Download Presentation

Monday, October 18 th , 2010

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Monday, October 18th, 2010 Objective: Develop an understanding of our senses review of where we are going this unit discussion of our senses discuss absolute and difference threshold Do Now: Write down our senses and each one’s purpose What do you think sensation and perception mean? Hand in your Project!

  2. Sensation – what occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor • Perception – the organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences

  3. Sensation and Perception • Sensation and Perception • Sensory processing and adaptation • Vision • The Other Senses: • Hearing • Touch • Taste • Smell • Perception • Subliminal Messages • What is real?

  4. How many senses do we have? • The five we always remember, but we really do have a 6th sense….not seeing dead people, but our sense of balance.

  5. What is the difference? Sensation Perception

  6. Absolute Threshold • The weakest amount of a stimulus necessary to produce a sensation.

  7. Smallest change in a physical stimulus that can be noticed half the time. Difference Threshold

  8. Signal detection theory • Study of people’s tendencies to make correct judgments in detecting the presence of stimuli.

  9. Weber’s Law • The larger or stronger a stimulus, the larger the change required for a person to notice that anything has happened to it.

  10. What is the difference?? Between absolute threshold and Difference threshold? EXPERIMENT TIME! Also, handout homework – rank your senses

More Related