Sensation, Perception, and Attention

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perception, and attention are three key elements to understanding environment. Humans constantly process the environment around them to retain information that may be necessary to sustain physical safety and to allow interaction with others. One of the senses used frequently is the sense of hearing. How a person absorbs information into memory often depends on his or her environment.
The human auditory system is capable of an astonishing range. The range of capacity depends on each individual person. For example NAME, NAME, NAME, and NAME have common and differing characteristics in their individual auditory ranges. Each person has a certain threshold for auditory stimuli measured in decibels, described by insert 4.18 in Psychology: the study of mental processes and behavior. This logarithmic decibel scale demonstrates a vast range of intensities into a measureable decibel range, much like the auditory system (Kowalski & Western, 2009).
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party phenomenon differ slightly from the original Colin Cherry theory Treisman (1960) proposed. According to Treisman’s statement, not all sounds, and words are incomprehensible because of the cocktail party phenomenon. Some words are significant enough to draw an individual’s attention. NAME and NAME can have struggles in the “cocktail party” phenomenon setting. They find noisy settings to be unnerving and prefer to remove themselves from these equations.
When presented with the dichotic listening test NAME and NAME experienced left ear dominance. NAME, NAME, and NAME have right ear dominance when presented with the dichotic listening test. NAME’s hearing is better in his left ear ...

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