{"id":109,"date":"2018-01-15T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T22:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/intropsychstudyguide\/?post_type=part&#038;p=109"},"modified":"2018-09-22T15:06:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T19:06:58","slug":"chapter-5-sensing-and-perceiving","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/intropsychstudyguide\/part\/chapter-5-sensing-and-perceiving\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 5: Sensing and Perceiving","rendered":"Chapter 5: Sensing and Perceiving"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\r\n\r\nBy the end of this chapter you should be able to:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Review and summarize the capacities and limitations of human sensation.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Explain the difference between sensation and perception and describe how psychologists measure sensory and difference thresholds.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Identify the key structures of the eye and the role they play in vision.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Summarize how the eye and the visual cortex work together to sense and perceive the visual stimuli in the environment, including processing colours, shape, depth and motion.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Draw a picture of the ear, label its key structures and functions, and describe the role they play in hearing.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Describe the process of transduction in hearing.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Summarize how the senses of taste and olfaction transduce stimuli into perceptions.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Describe the process of transduction in the senses of touch and proprioception.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Outline the gate control theory of pain. 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