Imagine you are taking a nighttime walk along the streets of a very large unfamiliar city. Describe how your absolute thresholds and differential thresholds for sensation would come into play in this situation. Be sure to define each threshold and develop at least two examples of each.

If I were walking in a large familiar city, I might be aware and conscious of the climate, temperature, lights, various sounds, and aromas. (Light, sound, odor, pressure)

Our perceived world is made up of sights, sounds, smells and textures. A scientific question is how these different "sensory experiences are related to the different physical energies that arouse them (psychophysics). The physical energies that surround us take many forms - radiant, vibratory, chemical, thermal, and mechanical - and they vary in intensity as well in kind. The forms of physical energy are our only direct links with the physical world of...