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.
