One of the most unique characteristics of a human being is our ability to make meaning of any and all kinds of situations. We select, organize and interpret just about everything. This process is called perception. The interesting part of the concept is that every individual perceives things completely different from one another. Based on our culture and self-indication, we select to perceive what we want to perceive. Next, we organize the perception based on stereotypes, scripts, prototypes and personal constructs. Finally, we interpret the perception by looking at attributions. Many things have an influence on how a certain person perceives a situation, like age and social roles for example. To get a better understanding of the point of others, we also strive to expand the boundaries of our understandings. This information made me think about my own perceptions of situations and why I think the way that I do.
My perception of certain situations has changed completely from when I was a child to now, but other perceptions have not changed at all. Being a student in elementary school through high school, my perception of the concept of school was of being boring and living a prison-like lifestyle for the 7 hour day. Nowadays I think of school as still somewhat boring, but I have learned to appreciate and apply what I learn so I can become successful in life. Age had a definite influence on my perceptions, like many others such as girls, cars and sports. Even though I still have stereotypes of certain people, they have changed over time as well. I always thought of football players as being big dumb jocks because that is how they were shown in the television shows and cartoons I watched. When I actually started playing football, I thought of football players as iron men and work horses. Another change over time was personal constructs that I had placed on people. Certain people in school who did poorly on tests and always seemed to be off somewhere else I percieved as being dumb or stupid.
This happens all too often and is one of the flaws in human perception. So, in this way, the senses are able to influence perception. ... The power of suggestion is also an amazing influence on the senses and perception. ... Perception depends completely on the senses. ... Therefore, the senses are vital to the act of perception in all forms. ...
Perception INTRODUCTION Perception is defined as a process by which organisms interpret and organize sensation to produce a meaningful experience of the world. ... Reading, then, is a form of visual perception. ... Although most often applied to visual perception, the Gestalt laws also apply to perception in other senses. ... Instead, our perceptions are remarkably stable. ... Lightness constancy illustrates an important perceptual principle: Perception is relative. ...
As they arrive in the city, Flyboy is fascinated by the expense of a particular toy item that far exceed is perception regarding the cost of it. ... That being the case, there are substantial advantages and disadvantages in socioeconomic status that effects one's perception regarding society. ... Moreover, unethical biased practices affects children's perception regarding how the quality of life should be experience equally. ... This experience goes to show that they're a significant gap between the perceptions of socioeconomic status. ...
When factoring in perception, however, sometimes what may seem logical may in fact not even be real. ... Perception is usually never the same between two people. ... Perception is a very dangerous arena to exist in when so many things could be on the line. ... My "perception" had changed as the evolution of my training took place. ... My initial perception changed dramatically as more facts were revealed to me. ...
"Perception Paper" Day in and day out people tend to form an interpersonal perception of others. ... The third stage of interpersonal perception is interpreting. ... After carefully viewing what the gang members were doing I then better formed my perception by fulfilling the last two stages of interpersonal perception, organizing and interpreting. ... This is known as direct perception checking. ... Before this paper I would have said that this whole perception paper is just a waste of time, but I now realize the importance of accurate perceptions through direct perception checking....
The brilliant philosopher Aristotle had many ideas about sense perception. ... Aristotle elaborates on all of the senses, but his main focus is on visual perception. ... This idea is the basis to Aristotle's theory on how sense perception operates. ... Gestalt psychology has many ideas on visual perception. ... Sensation and perception have a vital role in the way a human lives his/her life. ...
Every person has their own way of perception, the process or result of becoming aware through the senses, due to the way one experiences life. ... These people not only focus on their perception but on the different areas of knowledge and ways of knowing through which they understand the filters. ... A rationalist involving logic in its perception, combining two ways of knowing, can understand these filters by math and science. ... Perception is an individual case for every person, basing on the manners of their learning and experiencing. ... Even though the filters are different, we all...
Face perception allows us to recognise one another and is an important social communication facilitator ingrained in our evolutionary past. Face perception has long been an interesting field of study with research focusing on whether face perception is mediated by domain specific mechanisms. ... In evaluating such evidence that face perception is localized to discrete anatomical locations within the brain it must be made clear that face perception involves multiple specific cognitive functions. ... The perception f ofaces elicits neural activity in multiple regions and is therefore more of a d...
Tinnitus Buzzing, chirping, humming, hissing, roaring, and clicking, at times these sounds may become unbearable. The noise in your head will not go away. The term used to describe this common symptom is tinnitus. "Tinnitus is the perception of sound when no external sound is present; it i...