Essays on Perception

This project aimed to test the connections between color and the 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 pleasure machine, derived from lower swine pleasures, could not be considered as able to contrive maximum physical pleasure. Notably, the pleasure machine is simply pleasure and freedom from pain and only a thing that is desirable as an end; and that all desirable things...

Children have an intrinsic innocence that naturally expects to discover life as being solely positive. Children are completely oblivious towards subjects such as death and mortality. Children are oblivious to realities that concern loss and dystopia. As a parent, one tries to hide the less...

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...

Policing is an industry that has changed profusely ever since the days of Sir Robert Peel; the father of modern day British policing. One aspect of policing that is ever changing is the public’s perception. Societies’ views and norms change all the time, but what...

Today in our Intro to Psychology Lab we are looking to prove Weber’s Law. As our lab manual describes, “an increment in stimulus intensity is a JND when the stimulus intensity is changed by some fixed percentage.” In this definition JND stands for ‘Just noticeable...

Time, memory and history are three very important concepts that are not entirely independent of each other. This premise follows on from the observation that history seems to be perceived by most individuals as the recorded narrative of experiences or events as remembered by those...

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...

When listening to a certain piece of music, certain emotions and stories are imagined in our heads that we use to better understand the piece of music. Feelings of being happy, sad, anxious, exhilarated. The melody and lyrics also create a storytelling aspect in our...

There are three main styles of learning which is visual, auditory, and tactile(kinesthetic). Visual learners prefer to use graphs, charts and they prefer to write down very detail notes about lectures. Auditory learners like to listen to lectures and class discussions. Most individuals prefer long...