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Hello there for this question.
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They want us to use our understanding and examples of absolute thresholds, sensory adaptation, pain control, i mean, and pain control to argue that sensation is often influenced by our motives, expectations, and psychological states of mind.
00:29
Well, we can talk about the absolute.
00:33
Well, let's talk about the absolute threshold.
00:44
So the absolute threshold is basically the smallest amount of stimulation needed for a person to detect that stimulus 50 % of the time.
01:38
So an example of this would be like an auditory threshold is the slightest perceptible sound or that you're hearing like a watch ticking 20 feet away from you.
01:59
So to understand that sensory it can influence this probably could influence that we can hear something.
02:10
Further away or that we are just a little bit more, let's say, in tune, a little bit more in tune with our surroundings or something that's just unexpected and it just pops up like you're able to smell a drop of perfume in a six -room house or you can taste like a teaspoon of sugar and a gallon of water or the wing of a fly just grazing against your cheek.
03:02
So it's like the motive behind that, that it shows that the smallest amount, just simply just the smallest amount of energy that we can just instantly notice a difference in sensation.
03:27
Like we can just notice this or it's just almost like basically the expectation is just basically it was like unexpected.
03:37
So it's more like an unexpected occurrence that occurred when you're dealing with absolute threshold.
03:47
And now let's talk about sensory adaptation.
03:50
So sensory adaptation is basically like the process in which changes in the sensitive let me fix that and then in the sensitivity of sensory receptors occur in relation to the stimuli or stimulus my best so they're basically like bringing up about how how how all senses are believed to be experienced sensory adaptation, but there are some experimental psychologists that say that the sense of pain does not experience this phenomenon.
05:13
An example of this is like a smoker is not bothered by the smell of tobacco smoke the way how non -smokers are because those smokers have become accustomed to odors and all.
05:29
So it's almost like, in a sense, like you basically have built up a tolerance to something that others haven't, you know? or like when you're in a dark room or outside at night, your eyes completely adjust to darkness because your pupils enlarge to let in more.
06:13
Light or when it comes to feel when you jump into the pool the first time or first get into a hot tub the water feels unpleasant and it gives you a jolting reaction like you want to get out but eventually your body adjusts the body temperature and it feels like a mildly cool or a nice pleasant or a perfectly pleasant feeling in the water.
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Or it comes down to foods where, you know, had your very first dish and you notice how it has such a strong, salty, sour, sweetness of the food, but a few mouthfuls, your mouth basically begins to adapt.
07:06
So it's all about you build, only you build up tolerance, but you also build up, well, i want to say build up.
07:18
It's just your, your body learns how to adapt.
07:35
Oops, adapt, not, okay, adapt...