Question

psychology eleventh Chapter 6

  Sensory Experience Writing

(Sensory Experience Writing Assignment Directions and Rubric)

write a one page analysis of the interactions of sensation on perception.  To be more clear, how do the senses work together to give us the experiences we perceive in the world around us?  The finished product should be one page in length with 12 point font and margins of 1 inch.

Answer 1

Sensation and perception are two interrelated processes that develop over the lifespan of an individual.
Sensation is process of sensing or receiving the stimulus from the environment through sensory receptors in form of sound , smell , touch etc . The stimulus then converted into neural signals and reaches the brain where it is interpreted in the context that leads to the perception of reality. Thus, perception is the process of making meaning out of sensation or physical stimulus that helps to understand the whole world.

Sensation and perception are complementory to each other . Without the presence of other, sensation or perception donot have any usefulness. If there is no sensation then certainly there cannot be any perception except for extra snsory perception concept. Similarly if there is nothing to give meaning to sensation, it will remain unknkown to the person. Thus both are necessary to understand the realities of the world.

There is interaction but there are differences too. A sensation is bottom-up processing where stimulus from the environment is sensed through receptor then transformed into nerve impulse then send to brain while perception is top-down process where first whole sensation is received and then given meaning by process of interpretation.
examples- Sensing that light is turnd on is a sensation but assessing the color of the light is perception. Similarly, Hearing a sound is a sensation but determining the language is the process of perception.