Is Perception really Reality?| Psych-100 | Chapter 27 | Flourish with Diane Planidin

The eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin sense the world around us, and in some cases perform preliminary information processing on the incoming data. But by and large, we do not experience sensation — we experience the outcome of perception, the total package that the brain puts together from the pieces it receives through our senses and that the brain creates for us to experience. When we look out the window at a view of the countryside, or when we look at the face of a good friend, we don’t just see a jumble of colours and shapes — we see, instead, an image of a countryside or an image of a friend (Goodale & Milner, 2006).

Learning Objectives

-Describe how sensation and perception work together through sensory interaction, selective attention, sensory adaptation, and perceptual constancy.

-Give examples of how our expectations may influence our perception, resulting in illusions and potentially inaccurate judgments.

How the Perceptual System Interprets the Environment

This meaning making involves the automatic operation of a variety of essential perceptual processes. One of these is sensory interaction — the working together of different senses to create experience. Sensory interaction is involved when taste, smell, and texture combine to create the flavour we experience in food. It is also involved when we enjoy a movie because of the way the images and the music work together. Although you might think that we understand speech only through our sense of hearing, it turns out that the visual aspect of speech is also important. One example of sensory interaction is shown in the McGurk effect — an error in perception that occurs when we misperceive sounds because the audio and visual parts of the speech are mismatched. You can witness the effect yourself by viewing “The McGurk Effect.”

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Video's Mentioned:

https://youtu.be/jtsfidRq2tw - McGurk Effect

https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo - Selective Attention

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Open Courseware Link: Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception. (2019). Adapted for use by Queen’s University. Original chapter in C. Stangor and J. Walinga (Eds.), Introduction to Psychology: 1st Canadian Edition. BCcampus. Retrieved from https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontop....

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