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Sensory Perceptions

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Senses are reliable tools, but at times they often fail to transmit accurate data to the brain. When a person is ill, drowsy, or exhausted the senses tend to be less efficient. For infants, sensing will usually occur before a thought but for adults, it occurs simultaneously while engaging in thoughts. Adults usually depend on their senses in almost everything they do from thinking before doing something to not thinking and doing things that come naturally to them. Perception comes between simple sensation and complex cognitive behavior (Human Nervous System, 2013). Perception is so automatic to individuals that they hardly realize that what they are seeing and hearing is only an interpretation (Human Nervous System, 2013). Discernment is the ability to judge well (The Free Dictionary, 2013). Discernment generates one's experience of the world around them and allows them to respond inside his or her surroundings. Elucidation is a communication method intended to clarify or explain that serves to make the explanation clear (The Free Dictionary, 2013). Finally awareness; awareness is defined as having knowledge and cognitive response to a situation or occurrence (The Free Dictionary, 2013). Discernment, elucidation and awareness provide ways to gather information and can be very accurate or perverse and inaccurate. Accurateness of sensory data depends on the source of data and one's cognitive ability. A normal human being has five external senses which include smell, sight, touch, taste, and hearing. These senses guide the general interpretation of one's environment although it should not be assumed to be the only data available (Banano, 2012). These senses provide a good idea of the surrounding, but not all possibilities for sensory input (Banano, 2012). Humans often times make decisions based on the limited information their senses provide, the outcome of which frequently results in less than optimal choices with their accompanying neg

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