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Sensation, physical detection of stimuli using the senses.
Understanding sensation as the physical detection of stimuli through the senses.
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Sensation, physical detection of stimuli using the senses. outcomes8 objectives
- Understanding sensation as the physical detection of stimuli through the senses.
- Recognizing perception as the interpretation and conscious experience of sensory information.
- Identifying the five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
- Explaining the function of the occipital lobe in visual perception as part of the cerebral cortex that processes visual stimuli.
- Describing visual constancies in perception, including shape, size, and color.
- Identifying depth cues in the environment that assist perception, such as relative brightness, texture gradient, relative size, superimposition, and height in plane.
- Understanding the Gestalt principles of perception, which include figure-ground, similarity, proximity, closure, and continuity.
- Applying knowledge of the five senses, visual constancies, and Gestalt principles to new scenarios.
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