Perception

Sensation and perception work together in developing an interpretation of a stimulus to assign meaning to a particular experience or object (Grivas, Down & Carter 1996); however, they are still two individual concepts. Sensation is the passive process of gathering information via any of the five human senses, so that it can be perceived meaningfully (Clause 2015). Perception is the process in which important information gathered by the sensory system is selected and interpreted, so that a…

Perception is not the same as sensation. Sensation is transformation of energy from external stimuli into neural signals within our bodies (Schacter, Gilbert, Nock, & Wegner, 2016). Because the energies of the external stimuli are intrinsic properties of the stimuli themselves, different people have more or less the same “sensory” response. However, perception is the interpretation of these sensory neural signals and imbues sensation with meaning. Oftentimes, perception can be prone to…

Perception by definition means how someone thinks/sees something in her/his own way of view or it can refer to the recognition of using your five senses, especially the sense of sight. Perception refers to the ability to understand the true nature of something within a particular given environment of learning. (Spittle et al., 2012). According to Jamie (2014), perception refers to the process of obtaining information about both the external and internal environment which results, via integration…

“Perception refers to the experience of obtaining sensory information about the world of people, things, and events, and to the underlying process.” (Hochberg, 2010). Every individual people have his own perceptions towards everything in organizations which depends on how they see themselves and others and decides how they think, behave and how they evaluate themselves and other people in return. In the contemporary society, people do not only focus on the behavior merely but also pay more…

Top-down & Bottom-up Perception Processing Our brains are constantly working to make sense of the world around us. How we perceive and interpret information provides a platform for better understanding of our environment and stimuli we encounter (Feldman, 2013). The most fundamental process of perception proposed in the early 1900s, by a group of German psychologist that studied patterns (Feldman, 2013).. These psychologists conceived significant amount of vital concepts that are well…

Sense perception is the human ability to touch, taste, feel, hear and see. This sensory information is the primary way that we are able to acquaint with and better understand our external environment as it gathers substantial information about our surroundings and helps us make this information coherent. Our sense perception is vital in its purpose as its main objective is to help us humans interpret and make sense of the world. Our senses are involved in all of our daily actions and play a key…

the minds of viewers, implementing negative perspectives towards body imagery. This invasion of thought has affected beliefs and set a standard of a particular look or body shape so high many people suffer to attain such an image. This negative perception is invasively wrong in a sense that people nowadays started using this concept as a reference to their knowledge. In other words, they are guided by what other people perceive them to be. Messages are sent throughout television, radio podcasts,…

Perception, attention, and memory are slippery subjects. Perception is the process of recognizing and interpreting sensory stimuli, which is everything taken in through sight, sound, smell, touch and taste (Matlin, 2012). Consequently, it is an imprint that is left in the mind. Attention is the concept that refers to how specific information is processed in the environment (Matlin, 2012). It allows focus on specific items while filtering out other less significant stimuli. Memory is the…

Comment on the strengths and weaknesses of Sense of Perception as a Way of Knowing As per the Lagemaat book, Sense Perception can be defined as the awareness of things through our main 5 senses: Visual, Auditory, Olfactory, Gustatory and Cutaneous. These 5 senses allow our brain to take in information, but whenever they are in use, they all work individually, blocking all the other senses which aren’t in use at that particular moment. An example of this is our inability of multi-tasking. When…

A.) Selective Perception/pg.335: seeing certain features of an object or situation, but remaining blind to others. Selective perception is when someone can see certain aspects of something but remain blind to others, whether that blindness is intentional or accidental is unknown. Selective perception become extremely apparent in the film about the asbestos disaster in Libby, Montana. The owner of the W. R. Grace display a huge case of selective perception in the court files showing him being…