Problem
I. (i) Contrast sensation and perception, and (ii) explain the differences between bottom up and top down processing.
II. Consider your activities in the last day. Which of them relied on your rods? Which relied on your cones? How would these activities be different - or impossible - without these cells' different abilities?
III. How does our system for sensing smell differ from our sensory systems for vision, touch, and taste?
IV. Answer parts a and b: (i) What types of sensory adaptation have you experienced in the last 24 hours? (ii) Why is it that after wearing shoes for a while, you cease to notice them (until questions like this draw your attention back to them)?
V. What mental processes allow you to perceive a lemon as yellow?