SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
VISION SENSORY AND PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING
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Sensation is passive whereas perception is active
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Sensation is when we detect things whereas perception is when we give meaning to them
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Sensation relates only to taste whereas perception relates only to vision
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They are both the same thing
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sensation occurs when sensory receptors detect sensory stimuli. Perception involves the organization, interpretation, and conscious experience of those sensations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sensation usually involves sensing the existence of a stimulus, whereas perceptual systems involve the determination of what a stimulus is.
Detailed explanation-3: -For example, upon walking into a kitchen and smelling the scent of baking cinnamon rolls, the sensation is the scent receptors detecting the odor of cinnamon, but the perception may be “Mmm, this smells like the bread Grandma used to bake when the family gathered for holidays.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Sensation is input about the physical world obtained by our sensory receptors, and perception is the process by which the brain selects, organizes, and interprets these sensations. In other words, senses are the physiological basis of perception.
Detailed explanation-5: -The distinction between sensation and perception. Sensation involves the stimulation of sensory organs, whereas perception involves the processing and interpretation of sensory input. As this illustration shows, the two processes merge at the point where sensory receptors convert physical energy into neural impulses.