Sensory Perception

Three reasons for believing in the accuracy of sensory information.

By: Juan Lewis

Professor: Norman Flowers

PHI 210

10-10-2012

This is why I believe in sensory information.

Whenever you touch something hot or cold, the sense of touch & feelings detects it & sends a message to brain and in response you act and remove your hand from that hot or cold material

Your sense of sight helps you see & thus respond accordingly. When you see something dangerous you response by moving away from it & similarly when you see some vehicle coming your way, you wait to cross the road.

Sense of taste helps you to decide whether the food is eatable or not. Sensory organs in your tongue helps us to decide what we like and what we do not like.

The above examples help us believe in the accuracy of sensory information and act accordingly but sometime there might be some reasons that make us have a doubt on the accuracy of sensory information and such three reasons are as follows

Sometimes when you are crossing a road or a street you might find a vehicle heading towards you and then your sense of sight might say that it's far and you response and try to cross the road but then you suddenly realize that the vehicle is too close and then you might be in some tough situation.

Sometime the past experiences might prove your sensory information wrong as you might love certain food but this time when you are having it, it might taste awful.

We might see two kids fighting and then we separate them and scold them, the reason would be that our sense of sight saw and send the signal that kids are fighting but actually they were playing.

These points indicates that although our sense might be working properly you can still make mistakes.

Perception is our sensory experience of the world around us and involves both the recognition of environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli (Bagley, 2004). Through the perceptual process, we gain information about properties and elements of the environment that are critical to our survival. Perception not only creates our experience of the world around us, and it also allows us to act within our environment. Interpretation is a communication process, designed to reveal meanings, and relationships of our cultural and natural heritage, through involvement with objects, artifacts, landscapes and sites. Interpretation is how we perceive certain situations through our own thoughts and beliefs.

Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something, which can include facts, information, descriptions, or skills acquired through experience or education. It can refer to

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