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Sensation and Perception Narrative

In order to ensure a depth of understanding of the concepts that apply to sensation and perception. You will create a story which involves the use of the following concepts that were discussed in today's lecture video. These concepts are as follows:

Sensation
Perception
Transduction
Absolute Threshold
Subliminal Stimuli
Signal Detection Theory
Difference Threshold/Just Noticeable Difference
Weber’s Law
Sensory Adaptation
Top-Down Processing
Bottom-Up Processing
Selective Attention
Inattentional Blindness
Perceptual Set
You are to create a story of one person going throughout their day and them experiencing each of these concepts. Include in your story, after every example, the concept that is being exemplified. Your narrative should be at least 1.5 pages long, either on notebook paper or typed (12 pt times new roman double spaced). Be sure to submit your copy of the assignment to Canvas, whether it was done at home or at school when you have completed it.



Examples:



Tommy was on his way to school on the bus and was looking out the window. As he did, he noticed that they had built a shopping center where he used to play outside in the woods. Tommy was surprised that after all of these instances of riding past this lot, he had never noticed that the woods had been cut down or the construction that was surely going on for many months. (Change Blindness)



As Tommy continued on his ride to school he suddenly heard a very faint noise, that sounded vaguely like music.. He looked to one of his friends sitting next him and asked if he heard it too. His friend said no and that he couldn’t hear anything except for the roaring of the bus. Tommy looked around to try and pin-point the location of the sound. He finally figured out the student sitting behind him was listening to music loudly on his airpods. (Absolute Threshold) Tommy was dumbfounded that his friend could not hear the loud music. (Subliminal Stimuli)