SENSATIONS

Non-visual Senses
Hearing and Vestibular, Skin, Taste
and Olfaction

Hearing

Ear
known as pinna.
funnel sounds into the
inner ear.
Sound waves are basically
the vibrations of the air.

Hearing Disabilities
1) Presbycusis - Experience decline in hearing, especially of high
frequency sounds.
- Trouble telling apart certain sounds.
- Hearing aids : increase the intensity of the sound.
Modern hearing aids can be adjusted to intensify
only the frequencies that a given person has
trouble hearing.
2) Conduction deafness - the bones connected to the eardrum fail to
transmit sound waves properly to the
cochlea.
- can still hear his or her own voice.
- surgery can correct conduction deafness.

The Vestibular Sense

Allows an organism to sense body movement,
direction, and acceleration.
Attain and maintain postural equilibrium and balance
Enables us to keep our eyes fixated on a target when
the head is moving.
Detects each head movement and controls the
movement of your eyes to compensate for it.
Composed of three semicircular canals, oriented in
three separate directions, and two otolith organs.

Hearing to Psychology
Music usually affects our feeling.
When listening to sentimental songs, we tend to feel sad
and emotionally down, while fast and enjoyable song
seem to bring up our mood.
In some restaurant, they tend to play soft tones, or
sounds of nature to play with psychology in order to
make the customer to feel relief and relax while enjoying
their food.
Hearing plays an important in psychology to affect
humans mood.

SKIN

SKIN
Largest human organ.
Surface area of between 1.5-2.0 square meters .
Protects the body against pathogens and dehydration.

Skin Layers

Diseases: Vitiligo

Epidermodysplasia verruciformis

Necrotizing fasciitis

Ichthyosis Vulgaris

Skin and Psychology: Stress

Skin and Family

Gustatory System

Gustatory system is a sensory system

that is related to sense of taste.

Tasting
We taste using our tongue!

What can we taste?

Have you ever tasted any of these?

Sweet

Salty

Umami

Sour

Bitter

Our Tongue

Mechanism of Taste
1. Chemicals present in food dissolve in the
saliva
2. Chemical enters the taste buds through the
pores.
3. taste receptor cells stimulated
4. This stimulation is transmitted through the
nerve fibres as electrical impulses

5. These nerves pass through the brain stem.

6. The sense of taste is perceived in the taste
centre located in the frontal lobe

Sense of Taste in Psychology Field

Taste sensitivity affects our eating behavior
Food taste better in hungry state
Familiar food taste better than unfamiliar food
Different preference of food among human

SMELL

How do we smell?

Taken from Understanding

Psychology, 7th Edition by
Charles G. Morris

Sense of
Smell
Emotion

our emotional
response to smell is
governed by
association,
something which is
borne out by the fact
that different people
can have completely
different perceptions
of the same smell

Memory

Smell could trigger

particular memories
in recalling longforgotten event or
experience
-Marcel Proust,
Remembrance of all
Things Past

Disabilties

Skin

Taste

11.76%

Hearing

70.59%
0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

Awareness of the Community

Maybe

25%

No

4.17%

Yes

70.83%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

They help them sometimes

34.78%

They are aware but don't seem to care

39.13%

They are aware and tries to help in any way

possible

They ignore them

34.78%

0%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%