AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -There are five basic human senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. The sensing organs associated with each sense send information to the brain to help us understand and perceive the world around us.

Detailed explanation-2: -When we think of human senses we think of eyesight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. Yet we have always known that we are capable of sensing much more than this. Exactly what, however, is still subject to ongoing scientific research.

Detailed explanation-3: -We study how sensory systems control physiology and animal behavior. Our five basic external senses-touch, taste, vision, hearing, and smell-and our internal senses that ensure bodily homeostasis are strong drivers of behavior.

Detailed explanation-4: -The outside world shapes children’s development through experiences that they have, which include using their five senses-hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch.

Detailed explanation-5: -You’ve probably been taught that humans have five senses: taste, smell, vision, hearing, and touch. However, an under-appreciated “sixth sense, ” called proprioception, allows us to keep track of where our body parts are in space.