The paper will discuss sensory perception that asks the question can you really trust your senses and the interpretation of sensory data to give you an accurate view of the world. What are the accuracy and the weaknesses of the human senses as they pertain to thinking in general and to your own thinking in particular? First what is the definition of sensory perception? It is the state of perceiving one’s surroundings based on data collected from one’s senses‚ which includes physical‚ emotional
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Chapter 3‚ Week 4- Sensation and Perception Susan M. Jackson Professor Covington PSY P103 February 4‚ 2013 Chapter 3‚ Week 4- Sensation and Perception Question: See Stroop website‚ take the fun test‚ record your score and answer the following questions. In what way might you apply what you’ve learned to your everyday life? Are there examples of the Stroop effect you’ve observed in the real world? For this forum‚ I decided to take the
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the sensation and perception of a person TOPIC: SENSATION AND PERCEPTION As man lives‚ vast information are continuously accepted by the senses or sense organs. Every second of life‚ the senses are functioning to connect the internal or physiological body to the external world or vice-versa. Through man’s development in life (from birth to death)‚ the senses are continuously affected by one stimulus after another. The process of accepting the stimulus by the sense is called sensation. The
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around the world people are exposed to the world in different ways. What someone in Asia might perceive could be totally different than how someone in America might look at it. Culture plays a major role in how we all look‚ or perceive‚ things. Perception is the how you interpret some information that is given to you. You have two major ways of figuring out how you feel about certain stimuli‚ top-down perceptual processing and bottom-up perceptual processing. The top-down perceptual processing
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affect the way we see it? People get different types of information from their surrounding through different senses. We have five senses: sight‚ sound‚ touch‚ taste and smell. We rely on it‚ but it is well known that our senses can deceive us. Our perception consists of sensation and interpretation. Interpretation is provided by our minds‚ so each person has different interpretation. This can led to the problem of misunderstanding between people. For example‚ if one person tells 3 sentences and those
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the sponsors intended‚ as our own unique experiences‚ biases‚ and desires. Sensation: refers to the immediate response of our sensory receptors (eyes‚ ears‚ nose‚ mouth‚ fingers) to basic stimuli such as light‚ color‚ sound‚ odor and texture. Perception: the process by which people select‚ organize‚ and interpret these sensations. Information processing: we undergo stages of this when we are involved with stimuli We often notice a small amount of stimuli‚ and of those we do notice we attend
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11th March 2012 To what extent can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? We perceive the world through our five senses: Sense perception is the active‚ selective and interpretative process of recording or becoming conscious of the external world. So can we really rely on our senses to tell us the truth? There are so many times when our senses can be influenced by instinct‚ emotion‚ and beliefs. For example‚ if we are in the middle of a forest and scared‚ we probably start to see
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Perception and Attention People will perceive the world not in the same way. For example‚ two people may look at a cloud‚ and they both may say they see two different things. One may say they see a rabbit whereas the other person may say they see a dog. Perception aids in a persons information process. Attention aids the impact of information in a person ’s long-term memory (Robinson Riegler & Robinson-Riegler‚ 2008). This paper will define the concept of perception and the perceptual organizational
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SENSATION AND PERCEPTION APSY 382 Aug 27th‚ 2012 Chapter 1 Psychophysics – how we measure perception (loose definition) Sensation = unidimensional = varies in one way (sounds get louder or softer) Perception = multidimensional = varies in many ways (there are a lot of kinds of books) Perception – knowing the present Memory – knowing the past Thinking – knowing the future Cognition = the influence of perception‚ memory‚ and thinking Aug 29th‚ 2012 Basic principles of perception 1. Stimulation
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Sense Perception Our five senses are important sources of knowledge that actively structure our knowledge about the world rather than passively reflect reality. They are ‘the gates and windows’ of the mind that controls communication between the outside world‚ and ourselves presenting us with different variety of the world. Using our senses to be aware of things is defined as our Perception. We do not realize that perception plays a bigger role than what it may seem‚ playing a more active process
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