Critical Thinking Assignment 1
Kim McLaughlin
01/26/2014

Abstract
Our senses both enlighten and deceive our mind. Our senses act as a liaison to the world working hand in hand to shape our perception of who we are, where we are, and what is going on in our surroundings. Our senses nourish our brain a lot like food nourishes our body; without them our brain would be virtually blank.

Provide at least three (3) reasons for believing in the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information. Our sensory information comes directly from our senses. For example, our eye sees what is taking place around us and sends the data to the brain so we can identify or recognize our surroundings. Thus, the information from the eye is real and not in any way modified or abstracted.
Secondly we should believe in the accuracy of sensory information because our prior knowledge helps us to relate to what we perceive to be true. This brings about the production of sensory information that helps us in making decisions good or bad. Having accurate information, one is able to decide whether a particular taste is sweet, sour or bitter subject to what they perceive. One more example to support accuracy of sensory information is when a doctor whose patient has multiple symptoms and with his knowledge he diagnoses the correct illness and the patient gets well.
Third, the data from our senses is very important especially in establishing a starting point for our learning and behaviour nuisances in the future. In order to learn, a person has to use their first-hand information from their senses like look at a book and use the tongue to read which is then interpreted by the brain.

Identify and describe at least three (3) factors contributing to the accuracy of sensory data. One factor that contributes to the accuracy of sensory data is sensation. Our sensory organs provide us with pure sensation which the body senses directly and in unfavourable conditions that grasps our attention. Which means that, the neurons with our nervous systems play a major role in the determination of sensation which adds to the sensory data accuracy. Second is the factor of perception of a given sensation. For instance, cultures have varies names for the same color or have the same word for two or more colors established on what they perceive of them. Third is the interpretation factor which takes all perceptions by the human brain and organizes them in different and significant ways. Interpretation happens in many circumstances giving humans the ability to live in different environments based on how safe we perceive them to be for our lives. Discuss the role of memory with regard to the interpretation and evaluation of sensory data. Sensory memory stores sensory data in sensory registers that are relatively unprocessed. There are multiple sensory memory registers for the different senses (iconic or visual, echoic, haptic) and possibly a separate sensory memory of adding multimodal data. These registers make available a workspace for combining the features from which illustrations of objects and their relations are formed.
References
Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007
Girodo, 1999
Bowell/Kemp 2002 http://www.brains-minds-media.org/archive/150 Footnotes
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