Investigators are often frustrated by different eyewitness

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1. Crime scene investigators are often frustrated by different eyewitness accounts of the same crime. With your knowledge of sensation and perception explain how different people's perceptions of the same sensory information can be different.

2. Describe an example of sensory adaptation and explain why it occurs.

3. What types of sensory receptors exist? Describe a time during the day where at least three of your sensory receptors were activated by a stimulus. Indicate the category/type of receptor, the example of a receptor and the stimulus.

4. Explain how the structures of the eye and of the nervous system convert the light from the sun into a nerve impulse that you perceive as sunlight.

5. Explain how the structures of the ear end of the nervous system convert sound waves from your iPhone into a nerve impulse that you perceive as music.

6. Explain an experiment you could perform to test and compare the accuracy or quality of vision or hearing for a group of people. This could include testing for a disorder. Be sure to describe the experimental design including the manipulated variable, the responding variable and a controlled variable.

7. Explain the structures in your ears and nervous system that are activated while you are riding a rollercoaster to allow your brain to perceive dynamic and static equilibrium.

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