PSY-102 – General Psychology Topic 2 – Sensation, Perception, and Consciousness Sensation and Perception: Application
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PSY-102 – General Psychology
Topic 2 – Sensation, Perception, and Consciousness Sensation and Perception: Application
Directions: Making concepts personally relevant to an individual helps to learn them. Below are several concepts from your reading. Provide a psychological definition of the...
PSY-102 – General Psychology
Topic 2 – Sensation, Perception, and
Consciousness Sensation and Perception:
Application
Directions: Making concepts personally relevant to an individual helps to learn them. Below are
several concepts from your reading. Provide a psychological definition of the term and connect it
to personal example in your life. Each concept should be a minimum of 50 words with citations
to support your examples. List all references at the end of the list in APA style. Do not use
examples in the book!
Example:
Sensation – I like listening to my music before going to sleep, but if my parents hear my music
after 10 pm, I get in trouble. If my music is below their absolute threshold, then I won’t get in
trouble, because they won’t hear it. It is really hard to keep it below their absolute thresholds
because it seems that even the faintest amount of sound coming from my room is detectable. In
this example, the absolute threshold is the lowest amount of volume that they can detect up to
50% of the time (Grison, Heatherton, & Gazzaniga, 2017).
1. Absolute Threshold
a. There are times; I thirst for water. However, I do not like the taste of pure
ordinary water. An absolute threshold is,
b. The smallest measure of physical stimulation required to distinguish a sensory
info half of the time it is present. (Grison, Heatherton, Gazzaniga, 2017, p. 160).
When I am in the mood for flavored water, I can take a package of flavor and
pour it into my water and enjoy the drink, but I am not a sugary taste kind of
person. Therefore, I will pour the flavor into my water and taste it to make sure is
not sweet. I could pour a little amount, to enjoy the taste, and stop and save the
leftovers of the solution. Even though my sister could empty the entire solution
into the water, and still will not be satisfied with the taste and will get another
, package to make it sweeter. My absolute threshold could be a teaspoon of the
flavoring. However, my sister would
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