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Assignment:

How does the below relate to this day in age? (Tyler Brewer)

Stimulus from the environment that we are in are picked up through sensory receptors throughout the body (Kalat, 2019). These receptors correspond to the five senses that we, as human can detect, sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. These senses relay information from the environment and process that information through receptors found throughout the body. In sight this information is transferred through optic nerve to the visual cortex. For sound, information is picked up through vibrations in the auditory receptors in the cochlea and transferred to the auditory cortex (Kalat, 2019).

Smell picks up stimuli from the nasal cavity through cilia that relay information to various areas of the brain such as the piriform cortex and anterior olfactory nucleus. Taste relies on neurotransmitters that have picked up stimuli from the microvilli in the mouth and tongue and transfer that information via the cranial nerves to be received in the hypothalamus and amygdala. In touch, senses are picked up through receptors had throughout the body and transferred to the somatosensory cortex for processing (Kalat, 2019).

The biological understanding of how we sense and perceive our environment impact one's behavior through reaction and response to our surrounding. We react to loud noises and react to poor tasting food. Sights that are visually pleasing can illicit joy and pleasure and while smells that are displeasing can be less enjoyable. Damage done to any one of these senses and their corresponding systems can limit or disable functionality of those senses limiting our perception of our environment (Kalat, 2019).

Kalat, J. (2019). Biological psychology (13th ed.). Cengage Learning.