BY: Jake, Tyler, Megan, and Bryant

MEANING

• The process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information and the world around us.

• Perception is the use of all of the senses to interpret sensory information, the brain organizes and understands this information.

Types of Perception

• Subliminal-Stimuli below the threshold of sensation may, in rare circumstances, unconsciously arouse perception

• Extrasensory- The alleged phenomenon of perception or awareness of external events in the absence of any sensory stimulation arising from the events.

The Perception Process

• Selection

• Organization

• Interpretation

SELECTION

• First stage of perception process.

• Select stimuli to which we attend.

• Select stimuli through our senses: Smell, Hearing, Seeing, Tasting, Touching.

ORGANIZATION

• Second Stage in perception process.

• In this stage we mentally arrange stimuli (information) so we can make sense of the information.

INTERPRETATION

• Final Stage of perception process.

• We attach meaning to stimuli.

• Our interpretations are subjective and based on our needs, values, beliefs, and experiences.

FORCED PERSPECTIVE

• A technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is.

ACTIVITY!!!

• http://jvsc.jst.go.jp/find/mindlab/english/index.html

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