PERCEPTION
Jan 18, 2015
PERCEPTION
PERCEPTION: Comes from Latin words “perceptio or
percipio” means, receiving and collecting.
Is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information.
WE CAN CATEGORIZE PERCEPTION AS:
Internal Perception and External Perception
INTERNAL PERCEPTION
(PROPRIOCEPTION):
- tells us what is
going on in our
bodies.
EXTERNAL OR SENSORY PERCEPTION(EXTERORECEPTION):- tells us about the
world outside our
bodies.
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QUESTION:
1. At what point do we
become aware of
stimuli or events?
ANSWER:
We do become aware of stimuli or
events if the level of stimulation is
high and exceed the threshold of a
particular sense. Meaning, stimulus
can only be perceived if its amount
goes above threshold. Below it,
threshold is not perceivable anymore.
Much success in being happy and successful depends on your ability to respond intelligently and adapt appropriately to changes in your environment.
Process of changing sensation into perceptions is influenced by whether you are alert, sleepy, worried, emotional, motivated or affected by legal or illegal drugs.
STRUCTURALIST VS. GESTALT
PSYCHOLOGISTS
GESTALT:
- a German
word that
means pattern
or
configuration.
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STRUCTURALIST-
-believe that
add together
hundreds of
basic elements
to form complex
perceptions.
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GESTALT PSYCHOLOGIST
- believed that our brains
followed a set of rules that
specified how individual
elements were to be utilized as
meaningful ones.
ILLUSION
- distorts stimuli that actually exist. It is experienced by people with normal mental conditions.
HALLUCINATION
- the perception of somebody or
something that not is really
there.
people who are hallucinating perceive
objects or events that have no external
reality. This is mostly experienced by
people who are psychologically
disturbed.
FIGURED – GROUND RULE
. States that in organizing stimuli, we
tend to automatically distinguished
between a figure, against a background Proximity Rule
Closure Rule
Similarity Rule
Continuity Rule
PROXIMITY RULE
States that in organizing stimuli objects
that are physically close to one another
will be grouped together.
EXAM PLE OF PROXIMITY RULE
The fifteen figures above form a unified whole (the shape of a tree) because of their proximity.
CLOSURE RULE
States that in organizing stimuli, we
tend to fill in any missing parts of a
figure and see the figure as complete.
EXAMPLE OF CLOSURE RULE
Although the panda above is not complete, enough is present for the eye to complete the shape. When the viewer's perception completes a shape, closure occurs.as same as the second figure.
SIMILARITY RULE
States that in organizing, we normally
grouped together stimuli that appear
similar to one another.
EXAMPLE OF SIMILARITY RULE
The example above (containing 11 distinct objects) appears as as single unit because all of the shapes have similarity.
Unity occurs because the triangular shapes at the bottom of the eagle symbol look similar to the shapes that form the sunburst.
CONTINUITY RULE
States that in organizing, we tend to
favor smooth or continuous paths when
interpreting a series of points or lines.
EXAMPLE OF CONTINUITY RULE
Continuation occurs in the example above, because the viewer's eye will naturally follow a line or curve. The smooth flowing crossbar of the "H" leads the eye directly to the maple leaf.
IS THERE ACCURACY IN PERCEPTION?
Yes, because we inherit similar sensory
systems whose information is processed
and interpreted by similar areas of the
brain. Another reasons our perceptions
are reasonably accurate is that we have
had prior experiences about the sizes,
shapes and colors of the object.
TRICKERY AND MAGICMost research psychologists do not believe that you can receive information outside normal sensory channels, called extra sensory perception.
4 GENERAL EXTRA SENSORY PERCEIVING ACTIVITIES: Telepathy
Clairvoyance
Precognition
Psychokinesis
TELEPATHY
It is the ability to transfer one’s thought
to another or to read the thoughts of
another.
CLAIRVOYANCE
The ability to perceive
events or objects that are
out of sight.
PRECOGNITION
This is the ability to perceive or
accurately predict future events.
This may take the form of prophetic
dreams that foretell the future.
PSYCHOKINESIS
It is the ability to exert influenced
over inanimate objects by sheer
willpower (mind over matter). The
person can move objects without
touching them.
MEMBERS:
Atillo, Anacelle
Espera, Jeebee Jayne
Muller, Princess