Sensation and Perception

BY: Vyel Brodit and Cylene Serafica

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The Big Difference

Perception and Sensation are NEVER the same
Sensation is the transduction of physical stimuli into neural signal Perception is translation of neural signal intomeaning

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sensation
Lets sense things up!
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Sensation Disorders
Dizziness
An imprecise term which may refer to a sense of spatial disorientation, motion of the environment, or lightheadedness.

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Hearing Disorders
Conditions that impair the transmission of auditory impulses. *Hearing loss is any degree of impairment of the ability to apprehend sound. It is majorly caused by ageing or exposure to noise.

Olfaction Disorders
Absence of the sense of smell. Most people who develop a smell disorder have recently experienced an illness or an injury. Common triggers for smell disorders are colds and other upper respiratory infections and head injuries.

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Taste Disorders In ability to taste substances.

Vision Disorder

Visual impairments limiting one or more of the basic functions of the a reduced ability to taste sweet, sour, bitter, and salty eye.
a condition called hypogeusia. Some people cannot detect any tastes, which is calledageusia. Dysgeusia is a condition in which a foul, salty, rancid, or metallic taste sensation will persist in the mouth.

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Perception
Perceive me no more

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The explanation behind why we see things as what they are.

The Gestalt Principles

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Gestalt is a psychology term

which means "unified whole". It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories attempt to describ how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied.
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Similarity
Similarity occurs when objects look similar to one another. People often perceive them as a group or pattern.

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When similarity occurs, an object can be emphasised if it isdissimilar to the others. This is called anomally.

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Continuation
Continuation occurs when the eye is compelled to move through one object and continue to another object.

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Closure
Closure occurs when an object is incomplete or a space is not completely enclosed. If enough of the shape is indicated, people percieve the whole by filling in the missing infomation

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Proximity
Proximity occurs when elements are placed close together. They tend to be perceived as a group

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Figure
The word above is clearly perceived as figure with the surrounding white space ground.

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What we may perceive as such may not what it may really be. . . .

Case Files

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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS or AWS) describes a set of symptoms, the most famous of which are: Alteration of body image: the sizes of parts of the body are perceived incorrectly. Alteration of visual perception: the sizes of external objects are perceived incorrectly. Most reports are about children experiencing AIWS symptoms, though many people experience it in later life. Many people say they had AIWS symptoms as a child, but 'grew out' of them around their teens. The most common time to experience AIWS symptoms is at night.

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Agnosia
Agnosia is a perceptual disorder in which sensation is preserved but the ability to recognise a stimulus or know its meaning is lost. Agnosia means without knowledge. Patients with agnosia cannot understand or recognise what they see, hear or feel. Free Powerpoint Templates Page 19

Apraxia
is the loss of ability to perform certain complex movement tasks Types of Apraxia:
Ideomotor apraxia which is the inability to make gestures, can affect daily activities such as being able to hammer a nail, making symbolic hand gestures (waving goodbye), using a toothbrush, pretending to drive a car, or combing hair.
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 Verbal apraxia or Dyspraxia, is a speech disorder in which a person has trouble saying what he or she wants to say correctly and consistently. It is not due to weakness or paralysis of the speech muscles. Buccofacial apraxiaI impaired ability to perform learned, skilled facial (nonspeech) movements.

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Achromatopsia
Is the inability to see any colour. It is an extremely rare and serious form of colourblindness. Statistics report that this condition affects only one person in about 33,000.
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Achromatopsia
The American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology (2008) states that on in every 40,000 children globally are born with this disorder and the color blindness is a result of an unbalanced distribution of the function red, green, and blue cones in the retina. However, many people are not born with this perception disability; rather it occurs from brain lesions or a stroke.
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