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This 3 page paper examines problems in sensory perception. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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they were wrong. Police officers become frustrated when they encounter unreliable witnesses who claim to have witnessed a crime but change their minds down the road. Sometimes, such individuals do
not know what they saw. Other examples of why senses are not always accurate are related to emotion. People are emotionally involved with others and tend to deny certain realities
such as addiction or abuse. They tell themselves that everything is fine when nothing could be further from the truth. They also have a desire for a particular belief to
be true, so they perceive it as such. People do seem to create their own realities. Clearly, one viewers perception is different from his twin brothers. One can see why
Descartes claimed that sensory information is not reliable. While perception is an argument that has spanned the ages, the field of psychology provides concrete information about why things are perceived
as they are. In fact, several specific facts of biology are known and help the layman to understand how senses work. The posterior areas of the cortex are involved in
perception (Kowalski & Western, 2009). Other aspects of the brain are certainly a part of the explanation as to why people perceive things a certain way. Yet, there are problems
that come up in perception. For example, people perceive objects differently, and sometimes objects may be perceived a certain way due to a trick played on the brain. Optical
illusions play a part in demonstrating that indeed perception matters. Some concrete information about development does help to explain how and why there are differences in perception amongst human beings.
For example, children do not have the same type of size discrimination as adults possess (Doherty, Campbell, Tsuji & Phillips, 2010). For children under the age of ten, context sensitivity
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