Sensory Perception

Our senses nourish our brain like nutriment feeds our body, without their input our brains would be very hollow and lacking of association (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007). For familiarity we heavily rely on what we grok from our senses, as they provide first-hand experiences, heavy(p) us primary evidence on surroundings and situations. However sympathetics five senses touch, taste, clutch, sound and looking at also have their imitations, so therefore they each have weaknesses to the amount of accuracy of knowledge they shadow give.Starting from the sense of sight, a popular expression is seeing is believe as we depend on this sense to confirm reality. However beliefs from sight vary from person to person as we perceive things differently. An example of this would be the fact there was a time when people believed the earth was flat, as that was how it appeared as people could see the distant horizon as a straight line, it was only when the few thought otherwise went forth to judg e against this knowledge that they were able to open new vistas of reality by dint of their vision.Hearing, another(prenominal) sense has also been important for the exercise of humane survival as a way of revealing unusual sounds that may stand for risk of infection and for communication through language. However, human hearing mountain be limited, as frequently scientists find the existence or presence of sounds we cannot hear through our own ears. A human hearing deteriorates through age, as aesthesia towards sounds of higher frequency is lost. However our hearing is sophisticated enough that we can organize the sounds we hear, grouping and segregating these factors so in one aspect we hear what we want to hear.Sounds can also be interpreted or misinterpreted by different people as they stimulate varied emotions. As we chiefly connect the sounds we hear back to our memory, meaning we can recognize a person with a distinguishable voice. The sense of smell is important and is often used subconsciously for instinctual reasons. As recently discovered the extent to which the smell of a partner can affect our attraction to them. Our detections and evaluations others are influenced by their smell, as unpleasant smells connect to our disgusts or negative opinion of another.However, the wisdom of what is a good or bad smell can be interpreted differently between people as it is attached to preceding knowledge gained. Knowledge, justification and critical thinking are three factors that direct to the accuracy of sensory data (Mohanan, 2000). censorious thinking is the mental touch of reflecting upon something to assess its credibility, truth, significance, usefulness, value or goodness on the basis of knowledge available to us and a mode of justification that we consider legitimate. Critical thinking, knowledge and justification support the accuracy of training that our senses feed our brain.What we telephone c whole knowledge is a collection of pro positions that we believe to be true. A knowledge claim becomes part of the knowledge for an individual when the claim is accepted as true. Justification involves providing reasons for accepting propositions that we implys as knowledge, that is, for considering them to be true. It also involved providing reasons for rejecting the propositions that we regard as non-knowledge, considering them to be false. In other words, justification involves the defense of what we regards as true, and the refutation of what we regard as false.Observations, generalizations and theories are strategies of justification when using the senses as a viable way of gaining knowledge. Psychologists have long debated if perception is in fact due to nature or nurture. Beginning from the view tailor of nature, Gibsons bottom up/direct theory that all the information we need to perceive is provided by our visual environment e. g. nature, rather than having to use past knowledge or experience (Mace, 2005). Addi tionally, Gibson and Gibson later proposed their Differentiation surmise which explains how the innate system rears.They suggested when young, we lack the ability to differentiate between objects. However, as we get older we develop the ability to differentiate, for this to take place all the necessary information needed is found is our visual environment. Next, from the view check that perception is a processes of nurture comes from Gregorys top down/collateral theory which suggest that often the perceptual sensory data we put one across is ambiguous and impoverished so perception often relies on the social structure of sensory data, stored knowledge and expectations (McLeod, 2007).Research would suggest that although some argue that perception is due to nature, while other argues for nurture, it may in fact be that the two factors are interdependent and rely on each other. after all, it would be most adaptive to be born with some catchy wired systems which can be pruned and then developed to suit our environment. The human senses have enough strength to enable us to survive and develop our knowledge of our surrounding world to a target a point which we feel comfortable.Each sense has its limitations as well as its qualification to be influenced by our inherited preferences, memories or previous knowledge. The senses an also be influenced by certain human states as tiredness, drug/alcohol abuse, nutritionary deficiencies are all detrimental to the sensitivity of senses causing us to perceive something mistakenly. Our senses tell us similar things through our different experiences in breeding we absorb the facts in different ways.