Chapter 5 In Your Everyday Life

Answering these questions will help you make these concepts more personally meaningful, and therefore more memorable.

  1. What types of sensory adaptation have you experienced in the last 24 hours?

  2. Can you recall a time when your expectations influenced how you perceived a person (or group of people)? What happened?

  3. People often compare the human eye to a camera. Do you think this is an accurate comparison? Why or why not?

  4. What would your life be like without perceptual constancy?

  5. How would you respond if, after you were injured, a friend said, “The pain is just in your head”?

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