B1 Perceiving your environment

• Biologie
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 1

Unit 5 Perception, behaviour and regulation

B1 Perceiving your environment

Prior 

knowledge

What do you know about
sensing and perception?

Which things can you pick up
from your surroungings?

Learning objectives

You can describe how the senses work.

You are able to list the senses along with their locations and their stimuli.

Terms

sense = an organ that reacts to stimuli

stimulus = an influence from the surroundings on an organism

sensory cells = cells in the senses that are connected to nerves

impulses = electrical signals that arise when sensory cells receive a stimulus

What will happen to the threshold value when you listen concentrated?

1. it will get lower
2. it will get higher

Wit habituation the threshold value

1. goes down
2. goes up

Adequate stimulus

The type of stimulus where sensory cells are particularly sensitive to

Adequate stimulus

The type of stimulus where sensory cells are particularly sensitive to

Let's get to work

Read basic 1

Do exercise 1 up and including 3 in your book