I need 2-3 paragraphs per question I posted below:

Question 1)

Asyou watch this video of some students passing basketballs around,carefully count the number of times the players in the white shirts passa ball to one another. Pay close attention to try to get the countexactly right.

Test Your Awareness: Do The Test

Some of you may have noticed somethingkind of strange the first time (some of you probably did not). What doesthis exercise mean in terms of our consciousness – how do we affect ourown conscious experience?

Question 2)

This is a key area of the field that is very important to understand even if you disagree with some of its ideas.

Answerthese questions carefully from an evolutionary perspective, trying tooffer the best possible explanation from that perspective. Remember,evolutionary theory in psychology is about genetically driven behavior,not thoughts, that get more and more common in the gene pool.

1. How would an evolutionary psychologist explain differing levels of physical aggression in males and females
2. How about male attraction to healthy youthful women?
3. How about female attraction to mature, affluent men?
4. Howabout gender differences in play behavior, where boys tend to play ingroups focused on an activity, while girls tend to play one-on-one andtalk more openly?
5. How can differences between males and females in testosterone level support this perspective?

Question 3)

Youneed a partner to do this. Take several pens that are brightly colored.Have your partner sit facing straight ahead with their eyes focused on aspecific spot. Throughout the exercise they should not move their heador eyes.

Now bring one of the pens SLOWLY outfrom a point behind them and several inches to the side. As you bring itslowly forward, ask them to tell you when they can see it. (You maywant to ask them every few seconds if they can see it yet.) Remind themnot to shake or nod their head or move their eyes as they answer you.

As soon as they say they can see it,stop moving it forward and ask them if they can tell you what color itis. Then slowly move it forward a bit more, and a bit more, until theycan give you its color correctly. Then try it again with a differentpen.

What happened and why do you suppose itdid? (If nothing special happened, try it with someone else, and ifthat still doesn’t work, just think about what might have happened andwhy.)

Question 4)

In a marvelous opening section to a discussion on Sensation and Perception, David Myers (2010) says, “Twenty-four

hours a day, stimuli from the outside world bombard your body.

Meanwhile, in a silent, cushioned, inner world, your brain floats in

utter darkness. By itself, it sees nothing. It hears nothing. It feels

nothing… How does the world out there get in?”

With that opening (and the slide show entitled “Perception online”) as context, please consider the statement, “Perception is constructed.”

1. Why is that a good way to understand how our senses operate?
2. What does it mean to say that we see, hear, taste and smell with our brains?