Question

Sensation &Perception- Chapter 2 Human beings do not have the most sensitive or acute sensory systems in the animal world. Some bats can hear frequencies that exceed 100,000 Hertz, dolphins receive auditory messages from great distances, and cats can probably localize sounds better than we do because they can rotate their ears. Rats see better at night than we can, eagles have more acute distance vision, and horses have a wider visual field. Rabbits have more taste buds than we do, and many animals have a keener sense of smell This exercise asks you to consider how you would perceive the world if your senses were more acute or sensitive than they are. List a few things you would see, that you cannot see now if your sense of vision were "better." 1. 2. List a few things you would hear, that you cannot hear now if you could hear "better." 3. If your chemical senses taste and smell -were more sensitive, how might you be affected? Why are our senses no more and no less acute or sensitive than they are? 4. might our sensory systems evolve or change? Be sure to consider both sensation and perception!

Answer 1

1. If our vision is better than off course we can see things in night like cats, we can easily observe the birds more clearly and may observe the small creatures from more distance as well.
2. If our hearing is better than we can easily listen the conversation between a high sound DJ or a rock show which is now is nearly impossible.
3. If we are more sensitive to taste and smell then we surely smells from a long distance which is hardly possible now.
4. sensation !
5. If human being continue to be urban creature for the next few million years then surely he will lose some senses as for each and everything, human is inventing something new, for all the drawbacks a human have, they are inventing a instrument to overcome that limit.

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