Cognitive Processes of Perception; Pain and Emotions

Film perception, pain, and emotions Perception is the ability to see, hear, or know something through one’s senses. Emotions are necessary for the conceptualization and evaluation of pain. It is obvious that a person’s mood can influence pain tolerance. Films can be used to create the desired mood. When to remove or alleviate negative emotions, and when to access, experience, and transmit them, research should be conducted. Emotion must be incorporated into cognitive-behavioral representations of chronic pain in both theory and practice.  Cognitive and emotional sways on the perception of pain comprise of a multifaceted emotional experience that differs greatly from one person to the other or one film to another. Pain is an intricate sensory and emotional occurrence that may differ greatly among individuals and even within a person depending on the scope and the implication of that pain as well as the emotional and mental state of the individual. Cognitive and emotional aspects have a significant influence on pain perception. Pain entails a process of cognitive evaluation where the person consciously or unconsciously assesses the meaning of sensory signal stemming from the body to decide on the degree to which they denote the existence of a real or probable harm.

This assessment is definitely prejudiced. For example, in weightlifters or athletes naturally interpret the “burn” they experience in their muscles as gratifying and indicative of growing strength and endurance, on the contrary, a beginner may perceive the same sensation as indicating that there is damage. The innate changeability of cognitive assessment of pain might emanate from the neurobiological dissociation amid the sensory and affective factors of the pain experience shift in pain intensity leads to changed stimulation of somatosensory cortex while a shift in pain repulsiveness leads in changed stimulation of the anterior cingulate cortex. Therefore, a sensory signal stemming from the muscles of lower back may be viewed as a warmness and tightness or perceived as a dreadful anguish despite of the stimulus intensity being consistent. The way in which the bodily sense is evaluated might, in turn, determine it is experienced as horrible pain or not.

The degree to which a certain body sensation is construed as threatening is in part reliant on if the persons think he or she can deal with that sensation. If in the process of this multifaceted cognitive process of assessment, present coping resources are regarded as enough to deal with that sensation, and then pain may be seen as manageable. Pain intensity is minimized when pain is viewed to be manageable if the person tries to tackle the pain or not.

Human perception in tasked with amplifying and strengthening sensory inputs to as to distinguish, familiarize and act very swiftly, distinctively and competently. Sensory perception is regularly the most outstanding evidence of something real. When humans see something, they construe it and assume it as objective and genuine. This is often seen in films when emotions of pain are invoked in a specific scene maybe sad scene. The audience starts to empathize with the character and put themselves in that character’s shoes. Things that people see are engraved in their minds and take them as real. Human perception is a very strong emotion.

Works Cited

Wang, Yingxu. ”On the cognitive processes of human perception.“ Cognitive Informatics, 2005.(ICCI 2005). Fourth IEEE Conference on. IEEE, 2005.