Sensation
Perception
Interesting questions and facts
100

What is sentation ?

The process by which our sense organs receive information from the environment.

 Sensation is input about the physical world obtained by our sensory receptors. In other words, senses are the physiological basis of perception. 

100

What is perception? 

Perception is the process by which the brain selects, organizes, analysis and interprets these sensations. 

Perception of the same senses may vary from one person to another because each person’s brain interprets stimuli differently based on that individual’s learning, memory, emotions, and expectations.

100

What is the difference between sensation and perception?

How they process the information


They are two different processes where Sensation occurs when sensory receptors detect sensory stimuli. Perception involves the organization, interpretation, and conscious experience of those sensations. 

200

What are the 5 senses?


200

Example for sensation and perception 

Any correct answers are acceptable 

200

Who coined the term "psychophysics"?


Gustav Theodor Fechner

300

What does the human auditory system do?

300

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300

What kind of information? A stimulus is a detectable input from the environment: 


1. Light—vision 

2. Sound—hearing 

3. Chemicals—taste and smell

4. Pressure, temperature, pain—sense of touch 

5. Orientation, balance—kinesthetic senses

400

What are senses needed for?

Perception and interpretation  

400

In terms of perception, what does constancy refer to?

The capability to identify the same object among many sensory inputs

400

Why do people have different tastes in food, music, art, clothes, etc.?


Everyone is unique! 

 This is because perceptions vary differently for each person, as a result, the meanings people assigned to what they perceive are different as well. 

Basically, perception is as distinctive as our individual personalities. Our interpretations often vary according to a number of factors. Thus, perception is seen to be very powerful and influential in directing our thoughts and actions so as to guide who we are.

500

Who classified the five traditional senses?

 Aristotle, in De Anima, famously said that there are five and only five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell  

500

What is the absolute threshold?

The smallest magnitude at which a sensory stimulus can reliably evoke a sensation.

Minimum amount of energy an organism needs to detect 50% stimulus of the time 

(ex; hearing a siren from km away, see the flame from a far, etc.)


500

What is the analysis of the relationship between stimulus and sensation?

psychophysics