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WE DON’T SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE, WE SEE THINGS AS WE ARE
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The Perceptual Process
Sensation
An individual’s ability to detect stimuli in the immediate environment.
Selection
The process a person uses to eliminate some of the stimuli that have been sensed and to retain others for further processing.
Factors influencing perception
A number of factors operate to shape and sometimes distort perception. These factors can reside in the perceiver, in the object or target being perceived or in the context of the situation in which the perception is made.
Perceptual organization
It is the process by which we group outside stimuli into recognizable and identifiable patterns and whole objects.
Certain factors are considered to be important contributors on assembling, organizing and categorizing information in the human brain. These are
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Perceptual grouping