OUR FIVE SENSES
By: Lilibeth M.
Palmis
BEEd 2B
Partido State
University
Goa, Camarines
Sur
College of
Education
A/Y: 2012-2013
What
is Senses?
What
are your senses?
§ You use your
senses to gather information about the outside world.
§ You can see,
hear, taste, smell and touch things.
§ You can also
detect pain, pressure, temperature, and
the position and movement of your body.
§ All these
sensations are changed into electrical signals and carried to your brain which
then puts all the information together to produce the whole picture.
FIVE SENSES
SIGHT
Ø The eye is the
organ of vision.
Ø We see with our
eyes.
Ø Sight or vision is
the capability of the eye(s) to focus and
detect images of visible light on photoreceptors in the retina of each eye that generates electrical nerve impulses for varying colors, hues, and brightness
HEAR
Ø The ear is the
organ of hearing.
Ø We hear with our ears.
TASTE
Ø The receptors
for taste, called taste buds, are situated chiefly in the tongue, but they are
also located in the roof of the mouth and near the pharynx.
Ø We taste with our tongue.
Ø It refers to the capability to detect the taste of
substances such as food, certain minerals, and poisons, etc.
Ø They are able to
detect four basic tastes: salty,
sweet, bitter, and sour.
SMELL
Ø The nose is the
organ responsible for the sense of smell.
Ø We smell with our nose.
TOUCH
Ø We touch and feel with our skin.
Ø Touch or somatosensory, also called tactition or mechanoreception, is a perception resulting
from activation of neural receptors
Ø Four kinds of
touch sensations can be identified: cold, heat, contact, and pain.
Ø Hairs on the
skin magnify the sensitivity and act as an early
warning system for the body
“Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity”- Jean Houston –
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