Question

a) What is a sensory system designed to do?

b) What is the relationship between sensation and perception? What is the role of experience in creating this relationship?

Answer 1

a) The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system, which is responsible for processing sensory information. It consists of sensory neurons, neural pathways and parts of the brain, which are involved in sensory perception. Sensory systems work for vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell and balance.

b) Sensation and perception are correlated processes, which are developed during the lifespan. They have a close relationship. Sensation and perception have separate qualities, which distinguish one from the other.

Sensation is particular feeling either internally or externally prompted by a stimulus while Perception is the mode a stimulus is explained that is based on the subject specific way of putting said stimulus into context.

Sensation explains the process of sensing surroundings through touch, taste, sight, sound and smell. This information is sent to our brains in raw form where perception comes into act. Perception is the way we understand these sensations and form sense of everything around us.