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Perception: Sensation Occurs in The Following Manner

Perception is the process by which sensory information is organized and interpreted. It involves receiving sensory input, assigning meaning based on past experiences, and selectively attending to only the most important information. The Gestalt psychologists studied how the human mind naturally organizes sensory patterns into whole, structured perceptions according to principles like proximity, similarity, continuation, closure, symmetry, and common fate. Perception allows humans to interpret their environment in a way that is cognitive, selective, and based on both sensation and meaning.

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Perception: Sensation Occurs in The Following Manner

Perception is the process by which sensory information is organized and interpreted. It involves receiving sensory input, assigning meaning based on past experiences, and selectively attending to only the most important information. The Gestalt psychologists studied how the human mind naturally organizes sensory patterns into whole, structured perceptions according to principles like proximity, similarity, continuation, closure, symmetry, and common fate. Perception allows humans to interpret their environment in a way that is cognitive, selective, and based on both sensation and meaning.

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Perception

Introduction:
Perception is a dynamic process of searching for the best available interpretation of the data
received to the senses. Perception means those processes that give coherence and Unity to sensory
input. It covers the entire sequence of events from the presentation of a physical stimulus to the
phenomenological experiencing of it. It refers to the fusion of the elements of sensation.
the perception comes from the Latin word perception, percipio which means receiving collecting
action of taking possession apprehension with the mind or senses.
The way we perceive our environment is what makes us different from other animals and different
from each other.
Sensation occurs in the following manner;
Sensory organs absorb energy from a physical stimulus in the environment
sensory receptors Convert this energy into neural impulse is and send them to the brain
Perception follows in the sense that the brain organizes the information and translate it
into something meaningful.
What does meaningful mean?
It is by means of selective attention which is the process of discriminating between what is
important and what is irrelevant and is influenced by motivation .For example the students in the
class should focus on what the teacher is saying. But student's walking by the classroom main
focus on people in the room who is the teacher and so on and is not the same thing the students in
the class.
Perceptual expectancy which is the way we perceive the world as a function of our past experiences
culture and biological makeup. for example When we look at a highway we expect to see cars
trucks and so on and certainly not airplane.

Definition:
According to Eysenck perception is a psychological function which enables the organism to
receive and process information.
Characteristics of perception
Perception is cognitive
Perception involves sensation
Perception= sensation +its meaning
Perception involve memory and thoughts
Perception is innate
Perception is to analyze the world
Perception is selective
Perception is a direct experience
Perception is presentative and representatives
Reception is organizing
Perception is attentive
Perception is accompanied by feeling and action
Signs and meanings

Laws of perception:
One of the most striking characteristic of perception is that it is nearly always highly organized.
The process by which we structure the input from our sensory receptors is called perceptual
organization.

Aspects of perceptual organization were first studied systematically by Gestalt psychologists in


early 1900s.

German psychologists fascinated by certain innate tendency of human mind to give order and
structure on the physical world and to receive sensory patterns as well-organized wholes rather
than as separate, isolated parts. The gestalts argued that most perceptual organization reflects the
basic and innately determined functioning of the perceptual system.

To the gestalts, things are better described as more than the sum of their parts

Laws of grouping:
To the gestalt psychologists we can understand the psychological phenomena by viewing them as
organized and structured wholes rather than the sum of their constituent parts. The gestalts also
called attention to a series of principles known as the laws of grouping- the basic ways in which
we group items together perceptually.

Laws of organization:
Six essential laws of organization of perceptual field

1. Laws of proximity
2. Laws of similarity
3. Law of continuation
4. Law of closure
5. Law of symmetry
6. Law of common fate

Law of proximity:
Law of similarity, states that similar objects tend to be seen as a unit.

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