Importance Of Sensation And Perception

Psychology is a very large subject. Sensation and perception are just two parts of how we define psychology. Sensation is known as a physical feeling and a physical process using the five senses when the human body perceives something that happens to or comes into contact with the human body. Perception is the process of the human body consciously recognizing and interpreting the five senses. In this text, I will be explaining why the human body senses and perceives things and the purpose of it in psychology.

Sensation and perception go together like money and labor. You cannot have money unless you have labor. The same goes for sensation and perception; you cannot have sensation without perception and visa versa. The way we perceive things

One of those ways is through understanding how human emotions work as well as how humans experiences change the way we perceive things. Experience changes the way our minds think and process information. We learn from trauma or repetition, as one psychologist stated. With each new experience our perception changes in a positive way or a negative way. Psychology studies different areas of the human and tries to piece them all together. Without Psychology, our understanding of sensation and perception might not correlate with each other or our understanding of human interaction might not be as fully understood as it is

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