...EXPERIMENTATION ON SIMPLE REACTION TIME (SENSES: REACTION TIME) Date conducted July 04, 2015 Introduction How do we know the reaction time of its senses? Which of the senses is more sensitive and very fast in receiving information? How do we read laboratory primers and organized data into summaries and graphs? We will find out from this experiment the sources of reaction time. We shall identify also the early programs of research on RT. We will compare which of the sense is slow or fast in receiving information. OBJECTIVES: -This experiment aims to acquaint us in reading laboratory primers and organized data into summaries and graphs. -This experiment aims to identify which of the senses is more sensitive and very fast in receiving information and which of the senses that is very slow in receiving information. -It sought to know the reaction time of its senses as well as the average reaction time. Background and Related Literature: According to studies such as those done by Brebner and Welford published in 1980, mean auditory reaction times are .14-.16 seconds and mean visual reactions times are .18-.2 seconds. The time it takes for the signal to reach the brain was also found by these studies; it takes auditory stimulus .08-.1 seconds to reach the brain while visual stimulus take .2-.4 seconds to reach the brain. Based on this information as well as that from the experiment, a new hypothesis and prediction were being proposed such that if it does takes longer...
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...system consists of the five main senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. Each individual sense posses their own advantages and disadvantages, but all are crucial to a person’s survival. However, many individuals still take these natural gifts for granted. This is where the same question continues to surface; “if you had to give up one of your senses, which one would you select?” In other words, which sense could a person do best without? I think about this every single time I spend time with my little cousin Jolie who is deaf. I contemplate to myself how it is that she copes and manages? When will she realize she is different? Is it when she sits in school surrounded by her classmates who are able to sing the little hymns to learn their alphabet? Or is it when she has to place a massive hearing aid in her ear every morning before class? The sad truth is she was never given a choice in the matter of her hearing. She will always be considered as one of the “unlucky” ones! If I had the choice I would not allow her to maneuver this uphill battle alone. Choosing which of the five senses to give up would be a fairly easy choice for me. I derive at my perspective rather from what I would keep for my sacrifice as opposed to what I would give up. Undoubtedly I would give up my sense of hearing. For me personally, giving up my hearing would be the most logical decision. In addition, rumor has it that when you lose one sense the other senses become heightened. Sight plays...
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...Can you really trust your senses and the interpretation of sensory data to give you an accurate view of the world? Describe and discuss the accuracy and the weaknesses of the human senses as they pertain to think in general and to your own thinking in particular. What perception means and how is relate to our senses? According to Joe Stratton (1999) on his book Critical Thinking for college students stated that “perception is the process of selection, organization, and interpretation of the sense-data into mental representation that can be use by the brain and the nerve system to provide content for thought” (p. 17). We can understand as Perception the process by which we receive and interpret information coming from the environment or ourselves. This information is received through the five senses: Sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. Sensory perception is not sufficient to identify the outside world, it is necessary also the intervention of other processes such as attention, memory, and imagination. In other words, perception is how we understand and interpret the world. We perceive the world in certain ways depending on our beliefs is like a filter between us and the reality, the memories and experiences that we have stored in our subconscious mind and our capacity of imagination is responsible for how we can perceive the reality. The perception varies from person to person; different people perceive different things in the same situation. “This sensing-thinking connection...
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...The senses: Taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell. Everything we know is based on our perception of our senses and our knowledge of the world. Everything we know of perceptually in our brain’s memory bank is built upon the senses. Our senses pick up information and send it to our brain to be processed into something tangible. We use our senses to prove what we are told and we unconsciously depend upon our senses to function. Someone tells us a train is coming and it is near; we immediately want proof of it. The first instinct we have is to look for it and if we don’t see it we listen for it. If we cannot see or hear it then more than likely we are probably not going to believe that the train is near and dismiss the person as being misinformed. Our senses help us to make ‘sound” judgments as to whether we believe in something, if we like or dislike something, and if we trust or fear something. Without our senses we could not function. Businesses use sensory analysis, a technique to test or analyze our senses for their marketing. A restaurant uses sensory analysis to find out if their products are feasible to market by analyzing the effect a food product has upon their clients. The International Organization for Standardization has set procedures for sensory analysis “to conduct sensory evaluations under constant, controlled conditions with a minimum of distractions, to reduce the effect that psychological factors and physical conditions can have on human judgment”...
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...Approach to knowing: http://microbemagic.ucc.ie/explore_body/five_senses.html http://idahoptv.org/dialogue4kids/season10/senses/facts.cfm http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/WhoAmI/FindOutMore/Yourbrain/Whatareyoursenses.aspx We have 5 senses which are sight, smell, sound, taste and touch. They are very important in our lives because we would use one of them every moment of every day. They also work together to let our brains know what are going on around us, in other words, they are protector by warning us of any danger. However, any quick change to any of the five senses can cause the feeling of dizziness or unsteadiness. You might have experienced this while riding in a car or turning quickly. Sight: Eyes are the organ of vision. The function of our eyes are the same as cameras, as we can see images from the world and send information to our brain. Then, the brain processes the information, therefore we can see movement, color, depth and shape. Sound: Ears are the organs of hearing. The function of our ears is collecting sounds, and hearing helps us to learn and communicate to others. We can hear a huge range of sounds, from a deep bass to a high-pitched whistle and those sounds will change into electrical signals to the brain to process. Therefore, the brain uses the sounds from left and right ear to determine distance and direction of sounds. Taste: Tongue is the organ of tasting. The function of our tongues tastes four different flavors, which are salty, sweet, sour...
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...object / experience our natural senses try to analysis that experience and the information that is obtained is used to modify our interaction with the environment. The sixth sense technology is an effort to connect this data in the digital world in to the real world. Sixth Sense Technology is a mini-projector coupled with a camera and a cellphone. Sixth Sense can also obey hand gestures. The camera recognizes objects around a person instantly, with the micro-projector overlaying the information on any surface, including the object itself or hand. Also can access or manipulate the information using fingers. Introduction Although miniaturized versions of computers help us to connect to the digital world even while we are travelling there aren’t any device as of now which gives a direct link between the digital world and our physical interaction with the real world. Usually the information is stored traditionally on a paper or a digital storage device. Sixth sense technology helps to bridge this gap between tangible and non-tangible world. Sixth sense device is basically a wearable gestural interface that connects the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with this information. The sixth sense technology was developed by Pranav Mistry, a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab. The sixth sense technology has a Web 4.0 view of human and machine interactions. Sixth Sense integrates digital information...
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...Chemical Senses Robert J. Bernal June 6, 2016 Robert Levitt, Instructor University of Phoenix Intro The senses of smell and taste are chemically based senses that are unique to the other senses in the way in which the brain interprets them. Unlike other senses which are perceived and categorized analytically, taste and smell both pass through the emotional response center of the brain on the way to their being stored as memories, evoking an emotional association to their formation as engrams. Consider the unlikely association between taste and smell and the emotional response that they can trigger; a chemical reaction that gives off a gaseous “odor”, completely quantifiable by scientific standards, can trigger a purely emotional, unquantifiable response. The question then becomes, how do smell and taste play on our emotions? How do Smell and Taste Effect Each Other? The senses of smell and taste are integrally linked, the ability to do one without the other is not possible with the way that the brain is wired. Physiologically speaking, the way that humans are “designed” or the way that we have evolved is that the nose and the mouth are located in proximity to each other. This means that as we taste a food we are also inhaling particles that create the aromas that are generated by that food, and the brain’s interpretation of the stimulus from the taste buds along with the olfactory sensors in the nose is simultaneous; the memory engrams that form based on...
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...Name: Anas Awad “Sixth Sense” 1. What is sixth sense?Sixth sense, or subtle perception ability, is our ability to perceive the subtle dimension or the unseen world of angels, ghosts, heaven, etc. It also includes our ability to understand the subtle cause and effect relationship behind many events, which is beyond the understanding of the intellect. Extrasensory perception (ESP), clairvoyance, premonition, intuition are synonymous with sixth sense or subtle perception ability.2. How do we perceive and understand the unseen world?We perceive the gross or seen world through the five physical senses (i.e. smell, taste, sight, touch and sound), our mind (our feelings), and our intellect (decision making capacity). When it comes to the unseen world or the subtle world, we perceive it through the five subtle senses, the subtle mind and the subtle intellect - more popularly known as our sixth sense. When the sixth sense is developed or activated, it helps us to experience the subtle world or subtle dimension. This experience of the subtle world is also known as a ‘spiritual experience’. | | In the above picture, we see a lady who smells a bunch of roses. This would constitute an experience as there is a definite source to the fragrance of roses i.e. the bunch of roses. In the other picture, we see a lady sipping her morning coffee, pondering over the start of her working day. All of a sudden and with no apparent cause, she gets a strong fragrance of sandalwood. She initially...
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...Role of the senses in a human dining experience Food in recent times has evolved beyond just the taste buds. Eye appeal, smell and textures have now become involved in a complete dining experience. Today it is not just about how good the food on your plate tastes, but also about where you eat it, how it looks on your plate, how you eat it, the sounds, if any emitting from it and how it smells. In short it involves all senses in the human body. Where you dine is an important aspect in what you take out of a meal. If you have the same food at a roadside dhaba and at a Michelin star restaurant, it will still feel and taste different because of the different dining environments. Ambience is an important aspect of the dining experience. This is the reason why restaurants spend a pretty penny on getting the look of the dining area just right in order to give their customers a unique meal. In ethnic or specialty restaurants, the entire focus is on recreating the atmosphere, which is why you have traditional art work on walls, mirrors and staff wearing traditional clothes as a fixture in Indian specialty restaurants or pictures from 50’s America along with car seat type seating in an American themed diner. Customers also get unconsciously perceived signals from the restaurant décor. Bright lights and loud colours, as found in most fast food joints gets them to hurry up and complete their food whereas subdued colours and dim lighting in upscale restaurants gets them to relax, linger...
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...The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Sense and Sensibility Author: Jane Austen Release Date: May 25, 2008 [EBook #161] [This file last updated September 6, 2010] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SENSE AND SENSIBILITY *** SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER VI CHAPTER XI CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER CHAPTER XXVI XXVII CHAPTER CHAPTER XXXI XXXII CHAPTER CHAPTER XXXVI XXXVII CHAPTER XLI CHAPTER XLII CHAPTER CHAPTER XLVI XLVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXXIII CHAPTER XXXVIII CHAPTER XLIII CHAPTER XLVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXXIV CHAPTER XXXIX CHAPTER XLIV CHAPTER XLIX CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXV CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLV CHAPTER L CHAPTER 1 The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to...
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...Chemical Senses Julie Harris PSY/345 September 28, 2015 Adam Casteberry Chemical Senses Chemical sensory is the process by which the body experiences the world through the sense of smell and taste. The process the brain uses to perceive the smells and tastes that are introduced to it is through an electrical mapping of electrical impulses similar to the sense of touch, sight, or sound. Each sense is individual but through the interaction of each a more whole picture is produced that the brain stores as a memory. Most adults have their memories peppered with the smells and tastes that helped create those memories whether it was the first time a person was asked to be married, or the first time a person faced death, each experience is marked by a distinct taste or smell that will call up the memory and shape the person who holds it. The process of chemical sensory is conducted mainly through the nose and mouth through a bombardment of sensations is experienced throughout each day. Once considered separate from each other as either the nose or mouth people have become aware of the connection between the two senses as being tied irrevocably to each other. Chemicals in foods are detected by pallia that we have labeled taste buds, small structures in the mouth that are embed in the tongue, the back of the mouth, and the palate (Society for Neuroscience, 2012). Each person has a range of 5,000 to 10,000 taste buds that consist of 50 to 10 sensory cells that are stimulated...
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...Jonathan Crabtrey 10/30/2011 The five senses In this essay I will use the five senses in describing a trip to the movies the five senses being sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Senses we all use every day and that most of us would find difficult to live without. As im sitting at my house in my chair the leather smooth and black and smelling like pledge from my frequent cleaning seeing as I can’t stand to see it dirty a friend comes over and asks me if I would like to go with him to the movies . I say sure thing and so I get up hearing the leather creak as my weight shifts in the chair and open the door locking it as I walk out while closing the door I notice it’s a little slippery with an oil like sheen on the knob up on further investigation i realize it is indeed burnt motor oil slightly perplexed oh how such a substance would have got on my door knob I make a comment “ where the hell did that come from” my friend curiously asks “where did what come from” I said “ the motor oil on my door knob” so he says “oh I checked the oil in my truck I must have got some on the door when I opened it” so with the mystery solved I get into his truck with can under my feet and say “onward to the movies” and onward we went. We arrive at the movies and instantly smell the aroma of buttery popcorn instantly my tummy growls. Walking through the doors I see lights and arcade sounds coming from the arcade games in the corner we had about 15 minutes before the movie started so I paid...
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...Senses in “A Rose for Emily” “A Rose for Emily” is one of a several short stories written by the novelist, William Faulkner, who is well known after winning the Nobel Prize in literature. The protagonist in “A Rose for Emily” is an eccentric spinster, Emily Grierson, who locks herself in a house after her father’s death. With time passing, she meets a foreman of the construction company, Homer Barron, to whom she finally opens up. However, threatened to leave her for another man, Emily Grierson buys arsenic, which the townspeople believe she will use to commit suicide. Nevertheless, Emily uses the arsenic to kill Homer Barron and then keeps his dead body in one of her locked rooms until she dies at the age of seventy-four. William Faulkner presents the story with an illustration of various senses. A visual image is one of the author’s senses in the story that helps readers to imagine a picture in their minds. The senses of touch and hearing are also extremely supportive in “A Rose for Emily” to understand and imagine the sequence of the story. William Faulkner, the author of “A Rose for Emily,” presents the story with a sense of sight so that it is easier for readers to visualize a picture in their minds. One of his images is the big house that Emily Grierson lived in. William Faulkner explains: It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies...
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...Tiffany Herring B. LaFond PSYC 1000 Human Sense Organs As human beings we have 5 different human sense organs. These sense organs are sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. Our 5 sense organs help each of us and how we perceive reality and the world around us. Without our sense organs we would have a much harder time understanding the world we live in. Each of our different senses have specialized organs that are set up to receive specific stimuli, these are linked to the nervous system and from the nervous system then linked to the brain. The first sense organ is sight. The eye is the organ of sight. The basic structure of the eye consists of a transparent lens that focuses light on the retina. The retina is covered with two types of light-sensitive cells called cones and rods. The cones are sensitive to light whereas the rods are not they have a greater sensitivity to light. The eye is connected to the brain by the optic nerve. Our brain takes the two different images from our eyes and turns them into a single 3-D image. One of the most amazing things I learned about the eye was that our eye actually sees things upside down but when our brain processes the images it sees it turns them right side up and that is the image our brain shows us. Smell is our second sense organ. The nose is the organ we use to smell. The nose is lined with mucous membranes that have smell receptors that are connected to the olfactory nerve. Smells are made up of a variety of substances...
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...with decorum? “The Box Man”, from Barbara Lazear Ascher’s essay, displays dignity through grace, distinction and worth, despite his lack of address. Though homeless, he projects self-respect, not caring how the rest of the world views him. First, as the bandaged, blistered legs and the dark doorway fade into the background, he shows a graceful, meticulous arrangement of belongings around his flawless setup of boxes. In her essay, Ascher describes his imaginary living room with “Six full shopping bags…distributed even[ly] on either side.” (Ascher 6) Even in his unstable environment, which most people would find distressing, he creates homely comforts. The way in which he arranges and places himself in this atmosphere states an undeniable sense of grace. I can envision The Box Man in a room with distinct lines, sensual fabrics; a different ambience altogether. Second, he takes his damaged, ragged body and lowers himself to his makeshift seat; just as a tired, distinguished business person would light upon a train bench. The author illustrates, “[The Box Man] pulled out a Daily News, and snapped it open against his cardboard table. All done with the ease of IRT Express passengers.” (Ascher 6) He shows a distinction; poise, so to speak, of a man who was used to being important. The distinction in his movements and gestures shows this even if he has never been of high stature. The Box Man doesn’t fade into the backdrop, his mannerisms set him apart. Third, The Box Man takes...
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