Essays on Perception

The COMPASS is a nine-year study which started in 2012-2013, whose aim is to examine how young individuals’ weight perception influences physical activity (PA) and dietary behaviours. Hierarchical longitudinal data were collected from student and school guidelines questionnaires, observational data of school’s facilities, and individualized...

In our everyday life, we hold habitual perception to previously encountered situations. Both mentally and physically we have developed a default tendency to habituate what is familiar to us and bypass conscious thoughts, thereby escaping from the tension of new responses. Once something has become...

Interpersonal communication is manner in which information, feelings, and ideas are interchanged between two or more people. This is done through both non-verbal and verbal communication methods. In this paper, I will be covering why interpersonal communication is inescapable, irreversible, and complicated. The first principal...

Although Synesthesia has been a well-known condition for many years, it has only become of interest to science as of recently. This revival of inquiry is due to the presumed implications Synesthesia can tell us about perception and consciousness. Synesthesia is a conscious experience in...

This project aimed to test the connections between color and sense of taste within a human mind. In order to do this, the scientist conducted an experiment in which five, transparent, plastic cups of lightly colored, Mott’s apple juice were used. Four out of the...

Our main and most dominant way of interacting with the world is our senses. We don’t have any exact definition that we can use to describe this term. Still, in the most general of definitions, sense perception is any of the faculties of sight, smell,...

Magic tricks never go out of style. From centuries-old stunts of cutting the magician’s assistant in half, to disappearing and reappearing rabbits on hats, to undying card tricks, magic has always played a huge part in people’s entertainment. Magic tricks have been featured in many...

Several studies examining the issue of self-intervention that enter our daily lives by way of social media have attempted to come up with results regarding the identity of self-personal ownership (adolescents, celebrities, etc. ). Yet selfie craze is more shocking in cultural terms. Even with...

In Judaism, or any monotheistic religion, God is recognized as the Supreme Being who had brought all into existence. God, also known as YHWH, was believed to have led the Israelites out of Egypt. YHWH was significant for He brought the Torah into existence at...

Ever since our existence on Earth, we humans have been attempting to grasp the fickle concept of what the perfect human body is like. It is not just limited to how we appear physically but rather how our bodies are read according to their nature...