Psychology › Section E · Sensation and perception › Topic E.5
Taste, smell, touch, and the other senses
Vision and hearing get most of the attention, but you would struggle to eat, stand, walk or stay safe without the chemical senses and the body senses. This topic covers taste, smell, touch, temperature, pain, balance and the sense of your own body's position.
In this topic
- More than sight and sound
- Taste
- Smell
- Worked example: why food tastes bland with a cold
- Pheromones
- Touch, temperature and the somatosensory cortex
- Worked example: the two-point threshold
- Pain
- The vestibular sense
- Proprioception and kinaesthesia
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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