Monday, January 28, 2013

Perception and Theories of Perception

How does perception work?

How much can we rely on perception?

A list of the senses:


  1. Hearing
  2. Seeing
  3. Touching
  4. Feeling
  5. Smelling
  6. Addiction
  7. Adrenaline
  8. Appetite
  9. Balance
  10. Breathing
  11. Blinking
  12. Co-ordination
  13. Cramps
  14. Static shock
  15. Excretion
  16. Fatigue
  17. Goose bumps
  18. Gravity
  19. Itching
  20. Nausea
  21. Numbness
  22. Pain
  23. Pressure
  24. Proprioception
  25. Pulse
  26. Relaxation
  27. Resistance
  28. Sexual arousal
  29. Sleep
  30. Shivering
  31. Shock
  32. Soreness
  33. Stomach clamping
  34. Stress
  35. Sweating
  36. Time
  37. Tears
  38. Temperature
  39. Tension
  40. Wetness
What can we say about the following?
  • Uncertainty
  • Bias
  • Assumption
  • Justification
  • Verification
  • Connection
  • Implication
  • Ramification
Is this sense perception?


Eye patterns from NLP (neuro linguistic programming)