GEPSYCH
Jerome Albert Dela Cruz March 21, 2015
11435541 DGE01
GEPSYCH assignment
1) Sensation - the function of the low-level biochemical and neurological events that begin with the impinging of a stimulus upon the receptor cells of a sensory organ. It is the detection of the elementary properties of a stimulus.
2) Perception - the mental process or state that is reflected in statements like "I see a uniformly blue wall", representing awareness or understanding of the real-world cause of the sensory input. The goal of sensation is detection, the goal of perception is to create useful information of the surroundings.
Sensation and perception play two complimentary but different roles in how we interpret our world. Sensation refers to the process of sensing our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell. This information is sent to our brains in raw form where perception comes into play. Perception is the way we interpret these sensations and therefore make sense of everything around us.
3) Illusion - a distortion of the senses, revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation.
4) Delusion - a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.
5) Hallucination - a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception. Hallucinations are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space. They are distinguished from the related phenomena of dreaming
Delusions are fixed beliefs, cannot be corrected by logic and are not consistent with culture and education of the patient whereas Hallucinations are false sensory perception experienced without real stimulus, they are usually experienced as originated in the outside world not within the mind as imagination. Lastly, Illusions are misperceptions of real external stimulus most likely to occur when general level of sensory stimulation is reduced.
II. Kinds of Delusions
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11435541 DGE01
GEPSYCH assignment
1) Sensation - the function of the low-level biochemical and neurological events that begin with the impinging of a stimulus upon the receptor cells of a sensory organ. It is the detection of the elementary properties of a stimulus.
2) Perception - the mental process or state that is reflected in statements like "I see a uniformly blue wall", representing awareness or understanding of the real-world cause of the sensory input. The goal of sensation is detection, the goal of perception is to create useful information of the surroundings.
Sensation and perception play two complimentary but different roles in how we interpret our world. Sensation refers to the process of sensing our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell. This information is sent to our brains in raw form where perception comes into play. Perception is the way we interpret these sensations and therefore make sense of everything around us.
3) Illusion - a distortion of the senses, revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation.
4) Delusion - a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.
5) Hallucination - a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception. Hallucinations are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space. They are distinguished from the related phenomena of dreaming
Delusions are fixed beliefs, cannot be corrected by logic and are not consistent with culture and education of the patient whereas Hallucinations are false sensory perception experienced without real stimulus, they are usually experienced as originated in the outside world not within the mind as imagination. Lastly, Illusions are misperceptions of real external stimulus most likely to occur when general level of sensory stimulation is reduced.
II. Kinds of Delusions
1.