Sense Perception

Choose three real-life situations

1. one of your IB subjects; 
2. Music
3. one Sochi 2014 WinterOlympics sport (click on "Sport" under the Olympics rings); and
4. Rhythmic gymnastics 
5. any specific area of knowledge
6. the arts

Examine how knowledge gained by sense perception helps individual(s) be "successful" in each real-life situation.

In IB music, sense perception is absolutely necessary, because you need to hear the music to fully understand it. You cannot be successful in IB music if you can't listen to the music. I don't necessarily agree with this statement, and I wish that hearing impaired people could succeed in IB music and it was more all-inclusive, but it's really not. We've had entire tests where we just listen to a piece and then analyze it, and we don't even get to look at the score.

In rhythmic gymnastics, it's necessary to feel the beat of the rhythm in your body while you're performing. Gymnastics is a sport and an art, like dance, and if you can feel the rhythm, it helps you be successful at rhythmic gymnastics.

In the area of knowledge, the arts, sense perception is helpful because you need it for every art: dance, theater, visual art, and music. For dance, you need to feel the movements and hear the music. For theater, you need to portray strong emotions that you might not feel, but you still need to figure out how to feel them. For visual art, you need to see what it is you want to create and then use your hands (or a computer) to create it. And for music, you need to hear what's interesting about a piece in order to analyze it, you need to hear what would sound good while composing, and you just generally need sense perception in music in order to succeed.