Essays on Sensory Perception

A section of psychologists holds preposterous assertions of having first-hand evidence on extra-sensory perception, for instance, dreaming about something that actually happens later and foreseeing the future through mind reading (Plate & Joyce, 2013).The ideology of extra sensory perception was prompted by J. Rhine, a psychologist at the Duke University, by denoting physic abilities that include telepathy and clairvoyance. He elaborates the perception’s trans-temporal operation as being precognition or retrocognition in nature. However, most psychologists have refuted these claims asserting that the concept cannot be tested in the realm of science. Ingrained in a series of retrospective experiments ...

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With older electromechanical controls, the operator used to typically be located physically in closer proximity to the process, and therefore had direct sensory perception of the status of the process (e.g., sound, vibration, light) (Leveson 2011). Under computerized and digitalized controls, the operator no longer has a sensory perception of the status, other than what is viewed on the computer. This requires whomever is designing the control system to determine what information is important to the controller, and that the information provided in the feedback loop between the process and what is reported on the screen is complete and ...

Developmental psychologists study how humans develop throughout their lives. Their studies often rely on differentiating between perception and sensation, as a human develops over the course of its life. It is important to understand how these two concepts are connected and what makes them different, in order to understand problems faced by developmental psychologists. These two facets of human existence seem integrated, yet are completely different from one another. This paper will attempt to define and distinguish between perception and sensation, discuss problems for study that these concepts present developmental psychologists, and discuss practical problems that the study of ...

Sensory information is accurate, but the interpretation of sensory information is unreliable and biased. While senses were traditionally considered passive mechanisms, it is now evident that the interpretation of information received through the senses is an active mechanism based on inherited traits and past experiences. Several factors, both internal and external, influence perception, and those factors are always subjective because all individuals possess different internal traits and experience different external events. Sensory information cannot be accurate and reliable because it depends on individual factors for interpretation and evaluation.

A sensory organ will always receive sensory input objectively, but the ...

Sensory Perception

The Nervous system plays an important role in many mammals including man. The nervous system is responsible for the coordination of different stimuli in the body. Environmental changes can be felt in the body due to the nervous system present. The sense of touch, vision, audition and taste can be understood solely due to the nervous system. A minute change or deficiency in these senses could lead to fatality. A failure in perception of any of the senses makes an individual dependent. Sensory perception is essential for all living organisms and forms the basis for homeostasis. A ...

Sensory perception is defined as the recognition as well as interpretation of sensory stimuli on the bases of memory. Sensory perception may be accurate or inaccurate data. Memory is the most outstanding element that may be used in defining the accuracy or inaccuracy of a given data. There are various factors that may be used to determine the accuracy of sensory data. Senses being the connection between the world and the human mind it is an extremely critical element for making proper decisions. There are three main reasons that may lead to believe in the accuracy of sensory information. ...

Challenges for Family-Centered Health Promotion

Introduction In this paper, I interviewed a family with the aim of conducting a family-centered health promotion. I provide the results of this interview, as well as highlight the nursing diagnoses related to the family in question.

There are various health patterns that were tested. They include:

- Values, health promotion - Sleep/rest - Elimination - Activity/Exercise - Cognitive - Sensory Perception - Role Relationship - Sexuality - Coping

Overview of Family-centered care/health promotion

Family-catered-care (FCC), or health promotion denotes an approach for not only planning, but also delivery of care that is anchored on mutual partnership between the families, patients and healthcare providers (IFFC, 2010). FCC ...

INTRODUCTION

Perception is the exposure of the world within us that includes both the weather and environmental behavior and performance towards these weather updates. Therefore, the causes for precision of the sensory information are perception, interpretation and knowledge.Reasons for Accuracy or Inaccuracy of sensory information It’s truly known that human beings senses start working from the time of birth for instance, small born babies do have the sense to touch, grasp, sensitivity, listen and smell when they are born. Despite the fact that these senses don’t grow at once, they continue rapidly developing by the age of ...

ABSTRACT

The involuntarily and subconscious behavior of some individuals can be described as extraordinary capabilities. When individuals cannot consciously account for their actions, the phenomena is called ideomotor effect. The effect is not clearly understood though scientific research strongly relates it with the subconscious mind. The difficulty in conducting experiments to come up with a clear psychological and scientific explanation for the ideomotor effect, has lead to it being related to psycho-kinesis and extra sensory perception. The two (ESP AND PK) have an explainable origin from the subconscious mind although further research continues in the field. How scientists explain one sending ...

Every human being has five external senses, namely hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch (Bos and Read). These five sensory inputs determine how we interpret and understand the world we live in. We can define sensory perception as the process in which we use these five senses to receive stimuli, interpret and organize them in order to understand the meaning the environment around us. It is because of sensory perceptions that we are aware of our immediate surrounding by interpreting sensory information for survival purposes (Brewer, 2002). Personally, I believe that sensory information is not accurately interpreted by ...

The Mark of the Mental

Part 1 The problem of the mark of the mental is in determining what distinct features constitute the mind itself, what is unique about them, and what unifies them. Farkas proposes an answer to this problem by describing the mind as “nothing but the subject matter of the cognitive capacity that endows me with special access: that is, the area that is known by me in a way that is known by no one else” (22). However, before determining that this special or privileged access is indeed the mark of the mental, Farkas demonstrates how she arrives at this ...

Sensory perception: Accuracy & fallability

Sensory perception in human beings is far from being perfect. Human eye cannot see beyond the rainbow spectrum of colours (VIBGYOR), even though they are capable of discerning a single colour from several millions of them arranged together. The ear is capable of picking up sounds at frequencies of twenty thousand cycles per second, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t sounds at higher frequencies. Unlike some animals, we cannot sense electric or magnetic fields in our surroundings, but in addition to the five traditional senses, we can also motion and balance, temperature and the relative position of the ...