Compare and contrast sensation and perception. Also, describe the sequence of events that produces a sensation. This only has to be two paragraphs.

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Sensation and perception are intimately related; however, they play different roles when it comes to the interpretation of our world. Sensation is defined as the process of sensing our surroundings or environment through sight, taste, smell, sound, and touch. The information obtained is then transmitted into our brains, where perception is then applied.

Therefore, perception refers to how we interpret the sensation to make sense of it. The brain develops perception, and it is based on the raw data that have been collected or gathered from the environment. In other words, perception is how our brain interprets the occurrences in the world around us (Leinwand & Chalasani, 2017). It enhances the definition of the meaning of the world and everything that we observe from our surroundings.

One of the major parts of perception, or an example of perception, is attention that an individual develops towards a given idea. Attention is critical when it comes to the interpretation of the information that has been sensed and sent to the brain. Through attention, individuals are able to interpret different occurrences in our world continuously.

While processing and interpreting information, the brain often exhibits selective attention whereby it picks through different stimuli, selecting specific things that need to be focused on and the elements that ought to be incorporated. Selective attention may define different ways in which we perceive images. The process of sensation takes place through the nervous system.

There is always the physical stimulus that is registered by the sensory organs, which mainly consists of the central nervous system (Hochberg, 2019). The sensory organs then decode the information obtained and thereafter transform them into neutral signals or impulses. These signals are therefore transported or transmitted to the sensory cortical, where the brain interprets them.

References

• Hochberg, J. (2019). Sensation and perception. In The first century of experimental psychology (pp. 89-146). Routledge. https //www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780367854027-3/sensation-perception-julian-hochberg
  Leinwand, S. G., & Chalasani, S. H. (2017). Olfactory networks from sensation to perception. Current opinion in genetics & development, 21(6), 806-811. https //www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959437X11001183