Monday November 30, 2020 Pod A Pod B 

Pod A Homework: Read and SQ3R pages 115-119

Circle: A smell that brings back a memory?

Unit 4 Assignment Sheet

Sensation and Perception Assignment Sheet


Sensation and Perception: Point to remember-We feel, see hear, taste, and smell with our BRAIN, which can sense even without functioning senses.


Zimbardo Video: Discovering Psychology-Sensation and Perception


David Eagleman Ted Talk


The Invisible Gorilla Experiment


Synthesize the following:  What do the following tell us about the world YOU live in?


Test Strips: Do you have the gene?

Sodium Benzoate has different taste perceptions than the other papers. A different pair of alleles determines the ability to taste Sodium Benzoate. It can taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter or tasteless, so this paper is often used in conjunction with another taste test, such as PTC, to characterize taste perception, and break tasters/non-taters into subgroups.

The point is, PTC in genetics has been studied for quite some time, and there is quite a bit of information on it. There are several known alleles for the PTC gene, but PTC sensitivity is really controlled by two major alleles in humans. PTC paper either tastes bitter or it doesn’t taste like anything at all. Some tasters can taste a very strong bitter taste, while other tasters can taste a mildly bitter taste. Thus, there can be three classifications of phenotypes in a PTC study (strong tasters, mild tasters, and no taste).

Our Taste

Optical Illusions

Pheromones

Man on a horse picture from text

Color Blindness Test


Introduce Sensation and Perception


Have you ever been under anesthesia?


Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality/TEDtalk


Eye-witness Accounts