Sensation and Perception

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Sensation and Perception

The Process whereby an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.

Perception

Attention

Selective Attention is by purposely focusing of conscious awareness of specific stimulus or event in the environment to the exclusion of other stimuli and events.

You choose what you want to listen to and retain

What is being Perceived right now if dependant of where your attention is

Can be drawn from emotion

Attention regarded to something because of emotion can cause you to lose details, not retaining all the facts.

Fights

Relationship issues

Driven by external Forces

If someone may distract us that may shift our attention

subliminal Messages

Dreams/Sleep learning

If we do not process a message it will still have an impact on our behaviour.

Sensation

Proprioceptive

Brains ability to k now where the body is in space.

Awareness of body movements and balance.

Touch

Being able to feel something, the sensation of that object or person and being able to use that sensation to Perceive what the item is.

Smell and Taste

3 Types of Tasters; Non-tasters, Medium Tasters, Super Tasters.

Taste buds are found on the tongue with the primary receptors of Taste; Sweet, Sour, Umami, Bitter, Spicy

The Smell helps receptors to distinguish Odours

Sight

Ability to see onjects and certain colours on the light spectrum

Hearing

Sound waves go into the Cochlea and stimulate sensitive hair cells that creat can create neurological-signals for the brain.

Middle - Vibrations are converted into smaller forces with 3 tiny bones.

Outer - Where sound waves enter the eardrum and you hear sounds.

3 Major Areas of the Ear are; Outer, Middle, and Inner

The process by which the sense organ receptor cells are stimulated and relay their initial information to higher brain centers for further processing.