Sensation Reflection Paper

A study has been conducted based on sensation and perception. Sensation describes how our senses collect information and send it to the brain while perception is described as the organization of our sense receptors in the brain. Humans learn perception while sensation is about something that one senses. A vast amount of information is being sensed at one time and one does not recognize the slightest change. The lowest amount of energy to identify a sense is known as the absolute threshold. While, the smallest amount of energy added or taken away to notice a change is known as the difference threshold.
The study that has been done was to show the absolute threshold and difference threshold. The study conducted was on three different people of different ages and tested their hearing on if the individuals could hear a clock ticking from twenty feet away. Subject A will be my stepmother, Stephanie, who is forty years old while Subject B will be my husband, Jonathan, who is twenty-four years old, and lastly, Subject C is going to be my brother, Peyton, who is sixteen. …show more content…
Stephanie works in a loud environment at a local factory; however, Peyton only listens to loud music and worked has worked as a mechanic his entire life. My husband, Jonathan, does not work in a loud environment. He works as a framer building houses. Beforehand, my husband, Jonathan, knew about the experiment while Stephanie and Peyton knew very little. In turn, Jonathan could have been listening for the sound and could have thought he heard the ticking of the clock sooner. I realize age did not have much effect on the results of the hearing test, but the environment that an individual works in does have an effect. I believe genetics could also have had an effect on the results because Stephanie and Peyton are mother and son. I really challenged myself with this experiment, but my results were not what I