PSYC 1002-1 Psychology as a Natural Science
Dr. Gerald Nissley Jr.
Sensation and perception play two complementary, but different roles in how you experience the world. Your sensory receptors and nervous system send information from your senses like room temperature or the smell of perfume to the brain in raw form. Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information. Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information. Perception is what allows you to make meaning out of what you see, hear, taste, touch and smell. Factors like experiences, assumptions, and expectations help form perception” (Walden.edu).
Senses enable us to detect external stimuli and react to them. A stimulus can be defined a detectable change in the external or internal environment of an organism (Weiner, 2003). A reaction to external stimuli is referred to as a response. We have gotten used to our senses, and it would be a very difficult question to answer when one is asked to choose one sense that is most difficult to live without. It is a fact that our senses complement each other, for example, you will hear a sound then you will look towards the direction from which the sound is coming from. You also smell food before you taste, the senses contribute to our perception. For example, according to our perception we expect that food that smells good to taste good too.
We can determine the most difficult sense to live without by looking at the individual contributions of the different senses to our lives. According to Better Vision (2012), we perceive more than eighty percent of the impressions we make using sight. Sight is critical to our survival compared to other senses. Now we can evaluate the importance of each sense against the sense of sight. First is
