Perception Lab Assignment

Perception Lab Assignment

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Perception Lab Assignment

Sensation and perception are two different ways which are related to each other very closely. Sensation refers to the way of sensing the environment physically through taste, smell, sound, and sight. However, perception is the way how people perceive sensations and able to understand everything around them. Sensation and perception basically work together according to the definition (Coren, 2012). For example, the sensation is the process which explains how someone smell food and sense of smell sends information about food to one's brain. Similarly, people hear different sounds around them, but they can't hear all the sounds because they have the ability to listen to only specific sounds.

From the examples, it is clear the senses collect the information and send it to the brain. After receiving the information which senses collect the next step will be how one perceives about the information they receive. As every human being has a different brain and way of thinking (Coren, 2012). For example, as above discussed that smelling food is the process of sensation but how someone feels about the smell is the perception of a person. Some people might consider smelling of food as a good smell, and some might consider as a bad smell. This shows that everyone has a different perception just like everyone has different sensation (Coren, 2012).

In the video of friends by Blake Shelton there are two ways of sensation are used. We can hear this video and also view this video. The first information which this video gives after hearing it is that this is a music or song video. After hearing the video, the next information which video provides about the video is that it’s an animated cartoon video. We perceive in this video that it is a music song and it is related to animated movie angry bird. However, some people will have different thoughts about the video, or you can say they have a different way of perceiving about the video. From my perspective, it is an angry bird song in which angry birds are used to represent the friendship. Some people will perceive that angry birds are enjoying their life at the start of the video and some will feel they are having some serious problem on which this song is made to cheer them (Blake Shelton, 2016).

However, according to my perceptive in this video different angry birds friendship is shown which explains how they spend time with each other and enjoy playing with each other. The video explains that they are always there for each other in their good times and bad times. They don't only cheer with each other but they also fight with each other but in the end, they are friends, and they do care for each other. In the end, it was shown that red angry bird's friends are trying to cheer him up because he is angry at something but he doesn't want to listen to them, but still they are not giving up and trying to cheer him up. However, the angry bird remains the angry bird at the end of the song (Blake Shelton, 2016).

Different people will have a different perception of the video song according to their sensation. This is how sensation and perception relate to each other. We first sense something, and after sensing it, we perceive different things about that thing as each human being have five senses so they will be sensing information differently just like they will perceive things differently (Blake Shelton, 2016).

References

Coren, S. (2012). Sensation and perception. Handbook of Psychology, Second Edition, 1.

Blake Shelton - Friends | From The Angry Birds Movie (Official Music Video). (2016). YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2tzzDtDw-k