The senses of our bodies can change over time. Sometimes decreasing but other times increasing with our cognitive processes also expanding as we age. The way we differ in sight, taste, and smell can change because of our environment and our individual differences and personalities. In my study I had examined the sight, smell, and the taste of several different cohorts to see their individual differences and the way they reacted to certain things or how they changed their answers do to others stating what they thought. I had found a large difference between many aspects with each of the Cohorts. In the study I had tested eight individuals as well as myself. The ages range in many ways with three being ages nineteen to twenty-one. Two between twenty-five and thirty-five. In the older group I had studied a thirty eight to forty-five and last two in their mid to late fifty’s. There was four different types of wine that had been used each with a different brand, color, and type that would give more results in the varied responses. These wines were Apothic White, Dona pula for the white wines and Ravens wood and moonlight for the red wines. To remove the taste of the wine after each sitting we had cheese and meat as well as coffee grounds to smell to clear our sinuses from the last test.
There were many influences that had affected the study because of the varied personality types and cognitive functions of each individual person. These environmental influences could be linked to “person-environment transactions” which can change the person’s reaction to a certain smell or taste, however this isn’t a bad influence it had allowed the participants to come up with some better answers to the sight, taste, and smell of the item they were ...
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...ses like Full of aroma, easy to go down but with a bad aftertaste.
In conclusion there was a fairly large differences in the senses of the different cohorts. It could due to many things which include experience tasting wines and drinking. To different strengths in their ability to use their olfactory sense for smelling. There papillae could be different giving them a bitter taste or a fruity taste. Both smell and taste being connected could interfere. This was noted by one of the younger female cohort that had to plug her nose and got a different taste. Their vision of the wine can also include differences because of their age do to presbyopia or other effects of aging with vision.
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