Sense

Introduction Attention is a complicated concept that refers to what information in our environment is processed. According to many psychologists, objects in the world are only processed if our attention is focused there, meaning many objects can be missed. One phenomenon that explains why we ‘miss’ certain objects is due to inattentional blindness. Inattentional blindness is where attention is focused on a certain task and unexpected objects that appear in our visual field may not be noticed…

Kilcoyne was at it again. Acrya grew weary of the constant disputes between Kilcoyne and everyone that held an opinion. She overheard snippets of the conversation, but rarely had she interjected. It wasn’t interesting enough to keep her captivated nor did she think it was worth her time. Her head was propped up by her fist as she blew a few loose strands of hair from her face, and with the other hand she picked at the leftover vegetables on her plate. She glanced across the room, Dirge was…

To answer the question am I an objectivist or subjectivist about art I will use this analogy to paint a picture. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody's around to hear it does it make a sound or does it not? If you look at the tree as an objective you will say it has its own properties without someone giving it to them. Something is objective if it is independent of our opinions on it it. A property is objective if particular objects can have that properties regardless of any subject’s…

Synesthesia is defined as the perception of a certain stimulus, which is called the inducer, that automatically results in an internally generated sensation, which is called the concurrent (van Leeuwen, 2013). It is an uncommon condition but there are many different types of synesthesia. The most common type is synesthesia is grapheme-colour (GC) synesthesia. GC synesthesia is when letters induce the perception of colours (Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001). Just as there are different types of…

Written by Siri Carpenter, “Everyday fantasia: The world of synesthesia” gives me some background knowledge into past studies of synesthesia. Carpenter gave a translation of synesthesia, stating that it derives from the greek language with the meaning “to perceive together.” She also gave some ratios declaring that almost 1 in 2000 are synesthetes and that as many as 1 in 300 have a variation of it. This article also starts by giving some wonderful examples on how synesthesia impacts…

Most people confuse listening with hearing. It is possible to hear something without listening to them. Listening, as Keys to Success states, “is a process that starts with hearing but also includes focused thinking about what you hear.” Active listening “requires you to understand, interpret, and evaluate what you are being told” as stated in The Art of Active Listening, a book by Flynn Walker and Josh Gibson. In order to be a better listener we need to learn how to overcome the obstacles…

William Ury is a speaker for Ted Talks and he explains his thoughts about listening. He said listening is more important than talking, for that is the reason we are born with two ears and only one mouth. He says if you listen long enough, they will be more prepared to listen to you. For example, Ury meets the president of Venezuela during a civil war. Ury gave his opinion about what the president should do and the president became frustrated and started shouting at Ury. Ury did not yell back, he…

Listening is the foundation of any relationship. In order for any relationship to grow both parties need to understand where each other is coming from. There will be disagreements, emotional obstacles, and many more bumps that every relationship has to face. Now what sets apart a strong committed relationship from others is the understanding of how important listening is. Strong committed couples use effective listening when communicating but can sometimes run into problems preventing them from…

Perception in art represents the relation between the artwork and observing eye of the audience and how it affected his current state. It is the framework where we can link the art and the individual opinion about it. Perception depends mainly on the status if observation and evaluation of the art. There is not a universal perception that we could refer to, however, many variant parameters, including political, social, cultural, gender and racial. These parameters affect how we see art and what…

Broadbent's, Treisman's, and Deutsch and Deutsch Models of Attention are all bottleneck models because they predict we cannot consciously attend to all of our sensory input at the same time. Kahneman however states that we are able to attend to more than one input at a time and is more concerned with capacity. Broadbent started with his work with air traffic controllers during the war, where a number of competing messages from departing and incoming aircraft were arriving continuously, all…