Sense

affect four of their five senses: taste, touch, hearing, and seeing (Myers, 2013, p. 223). They use the previously motioned properties to make understanding of the individuals’ surroundings. “Perceptual sets are mental states or associations that are activated before an object comes into view” (Balcetis, 2013, p.3). Perceptual sets are therefore influenced by psychological factors as opposed to physical ones. This not only affects how we interpret things using our senses, but they affect how the…

to a common belief or perception. One of the main points that is shared between the excerpt by Plato/Descartes and the synopsis of The Matrix is that everything around us is perceived through our senses. Yet, because each individual perceives the world in a different aspect, how do we know that our senses are not faulted by biased opinion or obscure belief. Plato wrote in his book, The Republic, “Every way such prisoners would deem reality to be nothing else than the shadows of the artificial…

In the first two chapters of his essay “Problems of Philosophy” Bertrand Russell explains an alternative solution to philosophical problems that many other philosophers have answered in many different but often similar ways. Problems such as is sense data a sign of physical objects, is there matter at all and if so, what is the nature of a physical object (Bertrand Russell 12-13)? From these questions he later asks: can we take other people’s perceptions into consideration, and are there…

them. The world that we live in is known as the “macrocosm and that enters the soul “the microcosm” through our five senses. In the visible world there are things that generate, things that are generated and still others that govern them. They could either be completely bound or separately linked with or they might be altogether free from matter. Next we learn about the five senses and how they serve the five portals. “Through these portals, then, both simple bodies and composite bodies…

section nine, Locke explains that what a person stands for can reflect ones personal identity in a sense. Along with this idea, the mere process of thinking and consciousness gives one the ability to have a personal identity. If one can refer to them as self then they have the capability of having…

Touch can become a medium that provides security and creates a sense of comfort as well as exploration. When it comes to touch and exploration the child usually starts off at contact with the skin then the mouth and later on through their hands and fingers. Using this sense and developing it further allows the child to have a better chance of “surviving” in the world, for example through touch we are able to feel whether…

The confinement of this shot paper is to discuss the reflected appraisals and their influence on my self-concept. Essentially I must list five words that describe myself along with people who have been and are especially significant in my life. Once narrowing down the participants I ask them how I am perceived and what traits ties in with my personality. Once the controlled experiment is conducted the goal is to assess the results and trace how I see myself to the appraisals reflected by the…

Sensation is the direct and immediate experience that affects a sense organ whereas perception is the organization and interpretation of each sensation. The five major senses: vision, audition, gustation, olfaction, and skin senses all go through the process of transduction in which energy (light, chemical, or mechanical) is transformed by a sensory organ into electrochemical energy. This entire process is caused by neurons firing. Each sense organ respond to different signals and differentiate…

the audience to identify the colors that where exactly the same on both panels, he explained that the purpose of the game was for the audience to see the world as it is. Next, Beau Lotto describes why color is important and how we use color to make sense of sensory information. First, he uses the black and white jungle scene versus the colored jungle scene to portray color perception. In particular, he outlines how individuals are unable to see a predator in a black and white jungle scene…

We use the way of knowing (WOK’s) to explain why things are the way they are and how we make sense of everything in the world around us. The Wikipedia article about Scopes, Inherit the Wind and personal experiences can help explain how we see the ways of knowing being used in actuality. Through one of the ways of knowing, physiology, we can prove out existence on earth. We are living humans and we do need certain things to survive. We became the way we are, of course through God, but, speaking…