PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -One explanation is that perception and imagination are very different kinds of mental states. Perhaps, the core difference is located at the level of their functional roles. Whereas perception tells us something about the actual state of the world, imagination usually represents ways the world might be.

Detailed explanation-2: -It influences everything we do, think about and create. It leads to elaborate theories, dreams and inventions in any profession from the realms of academia to engineering and the arts. Ultimately, imagination influences everything we do regardless of our profession. Imagination is the key to innovation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Our imagination may affect how we experience the world more than we perhaps think. What we imagine hearing or seeing “in our head” can change our actual perception.

Detailed explanation-4: -These can be characterized in terms of the mental states they produce, or have the function of producing. Perception is the “faculty” that produces, or has the function of producing, perceptual states. Imagination is the faculty that produces, or has the func-tion of producing, imaginative states.