Sense

Verse number 11, from the Tao Te Ching, contains imagery related to emptiness. Those images are objects we interact with on a day to day basis. The first image is a wheel. In this chapter, they depict the wheel as just a wheel, and that is what makes it so interesting. A wheel with a hole and that hole is what makes the wheel useful. Another image is the carved out space in a bowl, and how that carved out space (where the bowl is not) is where it is useful. The final image is a house, with the…

Why Perception does not Equal Reality Have you ever seen an optical illusion that tricks your eyes into seeing something that isn’t there? That's called perception and perception isn’t the same as reality because appearances can deceive us and our point of view changes how we actually see something. In the play, “Sorry Wrong Number”, Mrs. Stevenson believes that she is ill and is bedridden, but she actually isn’t, it was all in her head. The first reason why perception isn’t the same as…

Many optical illusions take advantage of our perception, being a "construction project" and our brain constantly trying to estimate the best guess, leading for us to be easily tricked. The moon illusion is an optical illusion which causes the moon to appear larger near the horizon than it does higher up in the sky. One of the most famous illusion and most widely discussed has been the so called "Moon Illusion". For many years psychologists have known about this and have proposed many theories to…

Which habits seem to pop up in your listening? The habits that popped up in my listening are as follows Distractions such as background sounds or my cellphone or my thoughts going on in my mind sidetracked me in my listening. I jump to conclusions before the speaker has finished talking. What can you do to replace these habits with more productive behaviors? The first thing I can do is to minimize the distractions around myself. I should concentrate on the speaker. Focus myself to keep my mind…

Obtaining the ability to listen effectively is one of the most important skills for someone to have. Effective listening can enable great possibility and opportunity in the professional world, because it allows people to genuinely relate to each other. In the novel“7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, author Stephen Covey presents seven habits that have a foundation in effective listening. After reading his work, and understanding the different aspects of listening at a recent lecture by Dr.…

In a recent study, scientists from Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) were able to show that humans can discriminate more than 1 trillion olfactory stimuli thus, clarifying earlier misconceptions which claimed that humans could only approximately discriminate 10, 000 . To conduct this experiment, researchers used 128 odorous molecules to create scented mixtures that contained 10, 20 or 30 different components and then they asked 26 participants, out of whom 17…

issue with sensory processing because of their difficulty to understand others causes the perceptual overreactions (Gilberg 51). Autism possibly having an effect on intelligence is a controversial topic. This is considered a controversy because there is no concrete proof that ASD directly impacts intelligence. During the research I found three possible answers that show how autism may affect intelligence. The brain functioning of someone on the autism spectrum can cause some intellectual…

and the world around us shape how things are received based on how society says it should be perceived. The family life we have and the society we belong shapes our religious views, primitive judgments, moral values, formed stereotypes, and common sense. Perception is related to these values, so it can be said that our family life and society effects our perception of knowledge. A main…

Pennhurst Asylum, Spring City, PA 1987 All I hear is voices. All day, everyday, that's all I can hear. Sometimes I think it's normal, at least they keep me company. There are so many, but one voice always sticks out above all of them. Overall she usually stays calm, but she screams at me sometimes. She gets angry when I don’t do as she asks. 2 years earlier: I squirm in my seat on the park bench and wonder what my life would be like if I was like them; if only I was like the other kids in my…

Yiwei Wang PSY 323 Essay Exam Dec. 8 1. Describe the eight steps of the cyclical perceptual process using a specific example from one of the five senses (do not just use the example from the first chapter!). Explain how top-down processing influences perception in your example. 要具体解释八个步骤吗，还是只是用例子？ The eight steps of cyclical perceptual process are environmental stimulus, attended stimulus, stimulus on the receptors, transduction, neural processing, perception, recognition, and action, which…