SENSE- is the ability to perceive stimuli. SENSATION (PERCEPTION)- is the conscious awareness of stimuli received by sensory receptors. GENERAL SENSES- are those with receptors distributed over a large part of the body. SOMATIC SENSES- provides sensory information about the body and the environment. VISCERAL SENSES- are more specialized in structure and are localized to specific parts of the body such as pain and pressure. SPECIAL SENSES- are more specialized in structure such as smell
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PSY3051 Perception and Personality Exam Notes Lecture one What is perception? * Largely unconscious‚ automatic process‚ based on unavailable neural events‚ together with unconscious inferences from specific cues. * Cognitive‚ implicit * Can require conscious effort to interpret sensory data when things are not clear * Ambiguous‚ incomplete * Perception is a complex nervous system operation * Perception starts with an environmental stimulus acting on a stimulus receptor
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Understand Sensory Loss 1. Understand the factors that impact on an individual with sensory loss. 1.1. Analyse how a range of factors can impact on individuals with sensory loss. There are a number of factors that can impact individuals with sensory loss. In many cases sensory loss is hidden and people can be unaware an individual has sensory loss. Communication is an area in which people with sensory loss have many issues. Normal day to day activities can cause them a great deal of stress
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Explain what is meant by diversity‚ equality and inclusion 1.1 Diversity‚ equality and inclusion will be explained and examples give throughout. I will also look at ways in which setting can promote the different values‚ and looking at the different examples form by own settings. I will also briefly look at the different laws and codes relating to diversity‚ equality and inclusion. "All children‚ irrespective of ethnicity‚ culture or religion‚ home language‚ family background‚ learning difficulties
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life is called a(n): A. egg. B. fetus. C. zygote. D. embryo. Answer Key: D Question 2 of 53 Score: 1 (of possible 1 point) The vibrations of the eardrum are amplified by three tiny bones located in the: A. semicircular canals. B. cochlea. C. middle ear. D. inner ear. Answer Key: C Question 3 of 53 Score: 1 (of possible 1 point) Avoiding physical punishment is to ________ morality as respecting the laws of society is to ________ morality. A. preconventional; conventional
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the ________ system controls brain and spinal cord central The ________ nervous system controls the skeletal muscles. autonomic parasympathetic afferent sympathetic somatic somatic The part of the peripheral nervous system that carries sensory information to the CNS is designated autonomic. motor. afferent. efferent. somatic. afferent The efferent division of the peripheral nervous system innervates: glandular cells heart muscle cells smooth muscle cells skeletal muscle cells All of
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1. Introduction: Modifying the human body or enhancing our cognitive abilities using technology has been a long-time dream for many people. An increasing amount of research tries to link the human brain with machines allowing humans to control their environment through their thoughts. Research on BCIs began in the 1970s‚ but it wasn’t until the mid-1990s that the first working experimental implants in humans appeared. Following years of animal experimentation‚ early working implants in humans now
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Unit 3 Understand Child and Young Person’s Development All children are unique and a lot of their developmental milestones happen naturally as they get older‚ however some can be affected by different life factors‚ such as health‚ environment and background and more specific skills can be learnt and encouraged. There is an expected pattern of development but all children are individual and therefore the rate will vary. There are four categories of development: Physical Development
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TERRESTRIAL THINGS Poems Ingrid de Kok Kwela/Snailpress Acknowledgements I would like to thank the Rockefeller Foundation for granting me a residency in 1999 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Centre in Italy. The period spent there was invaluable. Thanks are also due to the University of Cape Town which awarded me four months of study and research leave in 2001 to complete the book. Acknowledgements are due to the following journals and books‚ in which some of these poems originally appeared:
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When it comes to raising a son or daughter everyone has their own opinions about which one is easier to raise. Parents are still raising their children to do activities which are gender specific. Parents should realize that they raise their children‚ whether boy or girl‚ very different from the very day that they are born. If you have a daughter then most parents tend to try to always protect her from being hurt by falling down‚ but if you have a son then most parents tend to encourage him to be
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