Psychology 2115A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Dermis, Power Law, Mucus

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2115A/B
• Professor: Stephen Lupker

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Chapter 7 excluding: pg 182-184, 190-195, 196-200, and 204 - 207. You get a response from your nose when you are trying to taste something. The stimulus for smell and taste are the same. You are creating molecules in your mouth and they will be the stimulus for taste. As you get older you lose the stimulus for taste. The power law works, exponents for taste are a lot larger than smell (taste exponent is closer to 1). Adaptation - we adapt pretty quickly to a taste, we unadapt pretty quickly to taste (10-30 seconds) At the front on your tongue things taste bitter. Maximum response is to bitter= back and tip of tongue. Anything that has a had a bitter response in your body has been bad for you (beer, coffee) Your body is giving you the message that this thing is not good for you, we mostly ignore this anyway.