Sensory

Question 1

Synesthesia

Answer 1

A short circuiting of the brain
Three dozen types: One type causes tastes when reading words

Question 2

Process of sensory integration

Answer 2

:sensing, routing, and perceiving.

Question 3

Smell boosts memory

Answer 3

Smell can evoke memories. This is called the Proust effect, named after Marcel Proust, an author of a book called Remembrance of Things Past, about the connection between
smell and memory.

Question 4

Multi-sensory environment

Answer 4

-enhances learning

-up to a 75% improvement to help
remember events and materials

-Cognitive psychologist Richard Mayer has done work to explore the link between
multimedia exposure and learning.

Question 5

Pairing senses boosts one

Answer 5

-Stimulating multiple senses increases the capability of the senses

-There was a 30 percent boost in the visual system. This is called multimodal reinforcement. Multiple senses affect the ability to detect stimuli.

Question 6

Greeks

Answer 6

• thought that the brain is useless

-Aristotle thought that the heart did everything, would describe the heart as the aspect of mental life

Question 7

Bottom up processors:

Answer 7

-They inspect every structural element in each letter and file a report, a visual conception of the letters and words.

-It is why reading is a slow way for information to enter the brain.

Question 8

Top down processing

Answer 8

Many comments are made.
○ Sections are analyzed in light of previous knowledge

○ Information is recalled, and it is added or subtracted from the data stream

Question 9

Smell is an exception:

Answer 9

Between the eyes lies a region called the olfactory region. It is a patch of neurons.

When we sniff, odor molecules enter the nose and collide with nerves. The odor molecules brush against the quill like protein receptors that stud the neurons in the olfactory epithelium. They begin to fire excitedly, and you are on your way to smelling something.