The Mind Is An Amazing Place

The human brain is capable of perceiving and interpreting information or stimuli received through the sense organs (i.e., eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin) (Weiten, 1998). This ability to perceive and interpret stimulus allows the human being to make meaningful sense of the world and environment around them. However, even as the human being is able to perceive and interpret stimuli information through all sense organs, stimuli is most often or primarily interpreted using the visual (eyes) and auditory (ears) sense organs (Anderson, 2009). However, for the purpose of this paper, the visual information process will be examined.

The term sensation is used when referencing the process of sensing the environment through taste, touch, sound, smell, and sight (Goldstein, 2014). Moreover, it is the process that occurs once the sensory receptor experiences stimulation, which in turn produces nerve impulses that are sent to the brain to be processed in its raw form, then perception comes into play (Goldstein, 2014). Perception is used to describe the way people interpret these sensations and tries to make sense of everything around them on a daily basis. Perception is the occurrences of the brain

After being taught three chapters of psychology I have encountered a wide range of information that has interested me, but perception has definitely interested me the most. It has interested me the most because ever since I was a kid I wondered why things closer to the car seemed to be moving faster than objects in the distance. Perception is the body's abilities to sense or detect something through its senses. We use perception everyday as it plays a large role in human life due to the fact that almost everything we encounter can be detected by our five senses.

There are six senses in total and these are known as languages of the mind, or ‘modalities’. These are Sight, hearing, feeling, smell and taste, although the last two can be put into the ‘feeling’ category. We use all of our senses in a particular situation but all of us will have a favourite which we are more comfortable with and are likely to fall back on in times of crisis. (Chrysalis pg. 4)

Imagine walking past a garden with an assortment of flowers. Now close your eyes and take in each distinguishing familiar smell. As you take a whiff you smell the differences between the roses, lilies, and even tulips. We can tell the sound of a drum from that of a gong; the touch of cool, smooth marble as we run our fingers over it distinctively feeling the difference from that of sandpaper. Our everyday lives are continuous experiences of sensations. These sensations have characteristic qualitative features, which are called “phenomenal”, “phenomenological” or “sensory” qualities. In philosophical terms these sensations can be referred to as qualia, which are defined as properties of experiences that type them in phenomenological respects .

Sense perception is one way that allows us to interact and communicate with each other and the world. This is our primary way of knowing because our senses live experiences that we go through. Based on our senses we are to make interpretations of the world. For example, in class, each pair was given a box. Inside the box, there was one metal ball, but you had to figure out the structure or the form of a maze inside the box. We couldn't see inside the box, and we couldn’t touch the inside of the box. By using our sense of hearing and another way of knowing, imagination, we were able to make an educated guess of what the inside structure of the box looked like.

Three reasons for believing in the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information is perception, interpretation, and knowledge. Perception is our sensory experience of the world around us and involves both the recognition of environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli (Bagley, 2004). Through the perceptual process, we gain information about properties and elements of the environment that are critical to our survival. Perception not only creates our experience of the world around us, and it also allows us to act within our environment. Interpretation is a communication process, designed to reveal meanings, and relationships of our cultural and natural heritage, through involvement with objects, artifacts, landscapes and

That our perception of the world is predominantly governed by the senses of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell is not disputed. However, scientists and amateur academics alike have historically disagreed about the existence of any additional senses, with the most contentious debate surrounding the phenomenon generally referred to as ESP, or "psi." Despite the vast number of people who claim to have or to have witnessed psychic abilities, the corresponding research has found little that is empirically valid or significant to corroborate the wealth of more anecdotal evidence. To establish their validity, it would be necessary to show how they occur in the sensory system - how

You feel the sun burning onto your skin as you gulp down some cold sweet lemonade. Your senses allow you to feel, taste, smell, hear, and most importantly they allow you to see. Our senses tend to play a large role onto how we perceive everything around us. This is stated in the poem titled, We grow accustomed to the Dark by Emily Dickinson, An essay called Coming to our Senses by Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the book review written by Matilda Battersby, which was tiled Every Second Counts. All three texts establish how our senses aren't enough to facilitate our understanding.

The five human senses are vision, smell, test, hearing and touch. From them vision is used most commonly. It is one of the primary needs that we use to gather information from our surrounding. The information received by humans around the world is more than 75 % visual information. Even the eye is small in size, only 25.4 mm in diameter, it serves a very important function the sense of vision. It has a complex structure consisting of a transparent lens that focuses light on the retina.

We receive information through our senses – the stimulation of the sensory receptors and sensory nerves. However, our response and relationship to the information that we are sensing is the act of perceiving – how we accept, reject, adapt, filter and use the information. As Cohen (2008) notes, “We all have sense organs which are similar, but our perceptions are totally unique.” Perception is about relating and reacting to what we are sensing – to ourselves, others and the environment. What we perceive may be influenced by our previous experiences and therefore, we draw on those experiences and we anticipate. As Brodie and Lobel (2012) describes it, “The focus of our perception is on the individual experience; how we feel in contrast with how others perceive us or how we think we are perceived.”

Chapter four of the book of Psychology: Themes and Variations went into detail with the explanation of the sensations and perceptions. The chapter describes the process of how we perceive and how we sense things in our day to day life. The correct definition of sensation is the stimulation of sense organs. Perception is the selection, organization, and interpretation of sensory input. To quickly summarize the chapter, I would describe it as a breakdown of how our minds react to different events or things in our surroundings, and the way we respond.

senses that can trigger on another (Simner, 2006). These overlapping senses often involve seeing numbers as shapes and colors or apply tastes and textures to certain sounds which widen the spectrum of known types of

The mind is a dangerous place that leads to a maelstrom of conflicting emotions, desires, and expectations. Oftentimes, the mind will conjure a plethora of thoughts and ideas that create the illusion that one needs to achieve a certain degree of something (whether its skinniness, education, power, etc.) to be accepted by society; however these goals are unachievable because obsession with acceptance makes one think he/she needs to do more to get a sense of belonging. In Hamlet, a play written by William Shakespeare, a young prince is recovering from the death of his father when his life changes with the discovery that a member of his own family, his uncle, murdered the prince’s father motivated by insatiable greed, the same uncle who is the new king of Denmark and husband to the prince’s mother. This discovery is revealed by an apparition that bares a striking resemblance to the young prince’s father who encourages the prince, Hamlet, to seek revenge with no proof that Claudius is Old King Hamlet’s murderer. In order to uncover the truth, Hamlet poses as a madman with no one knowing about his mad act except his dear friend, Horatio. Hamlet isolates himself from friends, family, and his lover, Ophelia, in order to exact revenge on his conniving uncle. In Loud in the House of Myself, a memoir written by Stacy Pershall, Stacy battles the hardships of life – being a victim of bullying, fake friends, unsuccessful romance, low self-esteem, and family – while having mental and