How We Perceive the World around Us
Through the perceptual process, we get the allowance to get the experience of the world that is around us. The things that one sees around the environment to be familiar helps us in the establishment of the conscious experience and thus allowing us to interact with the objects as well as the people around us. This brought us to the understanding of perception, which is described as the sensory experience of the world surrounding us involving the recognition of both the environmental stimuli or actions responding to these stimuli. Using the perceptual process, we can acquire information relating to the objects and elements of the surrounding, which are deemed critical for poor survival (Stone, 2012). Perception helps in not only creating the experience of our surroundings but also allowing us to act following our surroundings.
The perceptual process
Defines the processes and in a sequential manner of steps that start with the surroundings and then leads to the perception of a stimulus or action that responds to the stimulus.
The environmental stimuli
The environment is filled with stimuli that can attract our attention using the various senses. Therefore, in other words, the environmental stimuli can be defined as anything within the environment that has the potential of being perceived. This inclusive of anything that can be visible tasted smelled, felt, or even heard (Stone, 2012). During the period I had my eyes closed, I was able to use the other four elements. Which enabled me in the capturing of the attention that was required in the surrounding stimuli this allowing me to locate the activities and the objects that were surrounding me in the room.
Attended stimulus
Defines the particular object in the environment in which one’s attention is focused on. In many cases, we are focused on the incentives that we are used to and familiar with. When my eyes were blindfolded, I lost the attended stimuli since I had no focused specific object. Therefore, I ended up picking objects that were not intended due to the lack of attended stimulus.
Habituation and sensory adaptation
The shifting of attention away from something followed by the blocking of it out describes habituation. In contrast, sensory adaptation represents the reduction of sensitivity on a stimulus after having constant exposure to it, thus reducing our awareness of a continuous stimulus, therefore, helping us free our attention and resources attending to other stimuli within the surrounding. During the time, I had blindfolded my eyes the essence of shifting away from the light, thus exposing the brain to adopt the application of other senses for the reaction to the environment that surrounds the room, such as a sense of hearing, touch, and smell (Jopson, 2019).
The activity of blindfolding was practiced for a short while, and the body was able to adapt to the environment under the sensory adaptation through the creation of the attention and the resources attending to others within the environment (Jopson, 2019). In case of loss of one sense organ, the body is deemed to adapt to the perception of using other organs in the emanation of the activities that are surrounding the environment. Therefore by the application of the attend and environmental stimuli, the body can adapt to the new changes that are imposed into that is the utilization of the available organs in the Performance of activities carried out by the foregone organ.