Understanding sensation as a process where physical stimuli or feeling sent from sensory organs to our brain, I could relate the information of module 5 with my everyday experience. Learning the principal methods of operation of audition, vision, touch, taste and smell help me to obtain a deeper knowledge about our sensory organs and their interaction with stimuli, sensors, and our brain. Also, I gained a more valuable understanding of placebo effects and their implications in mental processes. I could appreciate more the complex proportions of pain and consider pain as an intricate process. With all the material and details earned in module 5, I can apply the information personally, socially and professionally.
A lot of information acquired by human beings from the environment or external world is recognized by our senses. These sense organs are eye, ears, nose, skin and tongue. They are immensely important to our quotidian life because they receive, process, and interpret all the information from our surroundings and its dangers. Besides, they connect us with the world outside and help us to gain a profound conception of the world. I could learn that sensation and perception play complementary roles, but they are involved in different functions. Sensation is the process by which a stimulated receptor creates a pattern of neural messages that represent the stimulus in the brain. ” In other hand, “ Perception is the mental process that elaborates and assigns meaning
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.
Explain the visual process, including the stimulus input, the structure of the eye, and the transduction of light energy.
1. Differentiate between sensation and perception. Explain the importance of separating these concepts. The differences between sensation and perception is that sensation is the elementary elements that, according to structuralist, combine to create perception. Whereas, perception is the conscious sensory experience (Goldstein, 2014). This student has always looked at sensations as those things in a persons’s environment that one can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and feel. On the other hand perception is how a person’s brain will interpret what is seen, heard, smelt, felt, or touched.
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.
Sound waves: Changes in pressure caused by molecules of air or fluid colliding and moving apart again.
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.
The above points also shows the roles of “nature” and “nurture” with regard to the interpretation and evaluation of sensory data
Perception has a few definitions; the most frequently used definition is what we become aware of through our senses. However, perception is not just what our senses tell us, it is our reaction to the feelings we sense. Perception just happens; it is something we cannot control. The mind tells us how we feel before we even realize what is happening.
Sensation can be described as a bodily sensitivity or awareness resulting from something that occur or makes contact with the body or a physical process whereby our sensory organs react to stimulus in our environment. It is also a viewpoint into humanity through our awareness. Perception on the other hand is a form of being mindful of something through the brainpower. It is also a manner of thinking, having anxiety linking us to something i.e. a sane instinct. Perception explains or clarifies all the sensory information transmitted from our senses. It is also a condition of being conscious of something through the mind.
A distinction between the two can be done sensation and perception can be distinguished according to the bare sensory material that is actually present in a situation, and the host of other items which we have become associated since