Friday 25 October 2013

Sensation and Perception

We have five sense organs - eye,ear,skin,nose and tongue- through which we get information . Survival and sensuality are two main function of our senses. Sense organs provide us information from which we derive a world of information .
The image shows the sensation and perception procedure

Sensation is a process by which a our senses gather information and send it to trhe brain. A lage amount of information is being sensed at any one time such as room temperature, brightness of the lights, someone talking, a distant train or the smell of perfume. information reaches the brain through the sensory system process infomation going out of the brain to muscles and glands are processed by the motor system process.

Perception involves both the recognition of environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli. Through the perpetual processes, we gain information about properties and elements of the environment. Perception involves the cognitive processes required to process information , such as reorganization are combined processes that do not act separately.

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