Perception And Sensation

Question 1

What are sensation and perception?

Answer 1

Sensation
Botton-up
It requires the direct stimuli, for instance, smell, touch and hearing.

Perception
top-down
This is what out brain has interpreted and has placed into context

Question 2

What is the function of sensory adaptation?

Answer 2

Sensory adaptation allows us to focus on new information due to is consistent state

Question 3

How do our expectations, contexts, motivation, and emotions influence our perceptions?

Answer 3

Expectation give us a perseptual set, a set of mental tendencies and assumptions that affects, top-down, what we hear, taste, feel, and see.

Question 4

What determines our perceptual set?

Answer 4

Through experience we form concepts, or schemas, that organize and interpret unfamiliar information

Question 5

What are the characteristics of the energy that we see as visible light? What structures in the eye help focus that energy?