Question

What is the difference between sensation and perception? As part of your response, paraphrase (use your own words) their definitions.
What is and what is the function of sensory adaptation? Give an example of it. Be careful - this is not the same as perceptual adaptation (habituation). As part of your response, paraphrase your definition of sensory adaption and how it is different from habituation.
Rubric: define sensation and perception (3 points), the difference between them (3 points), the definition of sensory adaption (3 points), an example of sensory adaptation (3), and how it is different from habituation (3 points).

Answer 1

Answer:

Sensation is the process of the things we can see, hear or feel around our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell. This information is sent to our brain the way it has appeared to the sense organ.

Perception is the way the brain interpret these sensations that was sent to it and therefore make sense of everything around us. It is the general and different way people tends to understand a view.

Sensory adaptation is a process where by our brain cells become less sensitive to constant stimuli that are picked up by our sense organs except the eye.

For example when you wear a new beautiful cloth, you will always feel some ego wearing that cloth, till at a point the brain becomes used to the cloth, that you will not feel any ego when ever you wear the cloth, may be when you have worn the cloth like more than once.

Sensory adaptation helps us to give less attention to a particular event and try to focus us on some other events. Therefore making us get used to some attention.

While sensory adaptation is the process of our brain becoming less sensitive to a constant stimuli from the environment, by giving it an automatic sensory input, Habituation is the process of the brain making the body to be conducive and relaxed with a change seen, felt or percived from it's environment.