Sensitivity vs Perception - What's the difference?
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The quality of being sensitive.
The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.
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, title= (statistics) The proportion of individuals in a population that will be correctly identified in a binary classification test.
(electronics) The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.
(photography) The degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength.
Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
Conscious understanding of something.
Vision (ability )
Acuity
(cognition ) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.
As nouns the difference between sensitivity and perception
is that sensitivity is the quality of being sensitive while perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.sensitivity
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(wikipedia sensitivity) (sensitivities)Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity . They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
