Sensory system

Often we ask one another, “What do you mean?” in an effort to understand something more clearly, whether it be a comment, joke, language, even a word, or in many cases objects, encounters, experiences, and sometimes other people, that are difficult to understand. All together creating meaning helps with understanding and making meaning of one another. On the other hand, language also has meaning; It has meaning that is attached to by the application of a certain group or culture. Most…

In both of the books Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery and Island by Allistar Macleod, each author plays on the readers five senses in order to give them the ability to place themselves in the context of the story in certain places in Canada, even though some of their readers have never been to Canada before. In Anne of Green Gables, there are many beautiful evocative descriptions of nature throughout the book, which gives the reader the ability to place themselves on Prince Edward Island…

Mulan The story of Mulan starts out with Mulan, a young Chinese woman in the time when Huns roamed the Earth, was studying for the ‘Matchmaker’. However, she was having a hard time recalling all the ways a woman should behave for her husband. She wanted to do well for the examination in order to preserve her family’s honor. Memory (Section) module 24 Studying and Encoding Memories is about the process of encoding, storing, and recalling memories. In order for Mulan to remember all the…

1. A perception is when sensory impulses are interpreted in the brain, such as touching a hot stove. A sensation is when the brain becomes aware of a stimulus, such as pain. 2. Pain receptors are excited by any type of tissue damage. 3. Referred pain is a phenomenon when you feel pain in an area other than where the pain originates from. 4. The thalamus and cerebral cortex are the parts on the brain that interpret pain impulses. The thalamus establishes the awareness of pain, and the…

What makes a person blind? The state of being blind can be both physical and emotional. Physically you can literally be blind and not have the ability to see anything around you. Emotionally you can be blind in the sense of ignorance and love. There is some what of an old saying that love is blind; I believe that love can be blind. Being blind to love is in the state of which you are in love but don’t even know it. It’s like being an amazing singer and not even noticing it. Not noticing until…

How would you feel if everything you encountered in life, you were apprehensive about? Most people would consider you paranoid or eccentric, but this was exactly what the philosopher Descartes was accredited for. In Sophie’s World by Joseph Gaarder, Descartes is one of the philosophers discussed and one who I dissented with. I comprehend his way of thinking, but I do not necessarily agree to it. Descartes’s thought development followed a series of points I disagreed with – senses may not be…

made between objects during childhood. There is a wide variation of hypotheses. Research is still being pursued to identify what happens in a brain that causes such cross-wiring and what does not happen to cause people to have so-called “normal” sensory perceptions. References Guterman, L. (2001). Synesthetes Show Their Colors. Chronicle Of Higher Education, 48(16),…

• Do you learn best in a group or through individual training? Would a mix of the two work for you? • Do you find study groups beneficial? How frequently would you want to meet if so? • Are you a visual, aural, verbal, or kinesthetic learner? Most people are a mix, but all of us are dominant in one over the others. ⁃ Visual learners prefer pictures, diagrams, images, videos, and spatial relationships. They learn by seeing. ⁃ Aural learners prefer spoken words, lectures, podcasts, sounds,…

perception is the sense of touch. It also has to do with the brain’s ability to perceive what is being touched. Touch is a complex system called the somatosensory system; the sense that someone receives touching is determined by amount of pressure, vibration, and temperature via receptors of the skin. The brain processes tactile perception within the somatosensory system in the cerebral cortex, specifically the parietal lobe. Information…

Gather and integrate pertinent background information from the client Residual Disabilities: Gross Motor- Aiden sits alone briefly, but usually uses his arms for support. No trunk rotation was noted, and he is not able to achieve a sitting position independently. In prone, he moves by belly crawling. Occasionally he will attempt to support himself on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth. He raises his head when in prone on extended arms, but has weak neck extensors and a lack of…