Sensory perception

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Sensory Perception
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Sensory Perception
Accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information
The sensory information in my opinion, can provide an accurate view of the world. It is because people’s lives revolve around senses and thought. There are five senses in living things, they include; sight, touch, taste, smell and hear. People’s thoughts are primarily an interaction with the sensory system. The accuracy of the sensory information, therefore, depends on a person’s thinking, fewer distractions in thoughts, sensory information are accurate. Enlisted are the reasons for believing in the accuracy of sensory information (Bueti, Bahrami & Walsh, 2008).
1. Touch. This sense majorly composed of skin allows one to detect dangerous materials. Hot and cold materials are touched and the touch sensor detects it and sends the information to the brain. The brain triggers a response to an act by removing the hand from the material.
2. Taste. The sensory organs in the tongue are vital in the accuracy of the sensory information.
It makes it possible for one to decide on the foods that can be eaten or a person’s preferences are based on the sensory organs of the tongue.
3. Sight: The organ responsible for sight, the eye, allows one to see a variety of things ranging from pleasant ones to the dangerous things. The sense of sight helps in the trigger off a response according to the information detected and sent to the brain. The response may be moving away or moving closer.
The above are the reasons for believing in the accuracy of the sensory information. They are a major key to the world wonders and allows one in the exploration of new things.
Alteration of the senses causes inaccuracy of the sensory info...

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...here is a fire outbreak in the neighborhood, an adult person can smell the smoke and give meaning to the whole thing while a child will not be able to tell if there is a fire because the child does not have the memory of the smell of smoke. Hence can’t give meaning to it and act.

References
Boets, B., Wouters, J., Wieringen, A. V., Smedt, B. D., & Ghesquière, P. (2008). Modelling relations between sensory processing, speech perception, orthographic and phonological ability, and literacy achievement. Brain and Language, 106(1), 29-40.
Bueti, D., Bahrami, B., & Walsh, V. (2008). Sensory and association cortex in time perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1054–1062. doi:10.1162/jocn.2008.20060.
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