What is perceptual process?

The perceptual process allows us to experience the world around us. Take a moment to think of all the things you perceive on a daily basis. At any given moment, you might see familiar objects in your environment, feel the touch of objects and people against your skin, smell the aroma of a home-cooked meal and hear the sound of music playing in your next door neighbor's apartment. All of these things help make up our conscious experience and allow us to interact with the people and objects around us. The Perceptual process is a sequence of steps that begins with the environment and leads to our perception of a stimulus and an action in response to the stimulus. This process is continual, but you do not spend a great deal of time thinking about the actual process that occurs when you perceive the many stimuli that surround you at any given moment.

Steps in perceptual process 1. Perceptual Input:

Perceptual input encompasses all stimuli that exist in our environment including people, events, informations, conversations, etc. These inputs are received by the perceivers when the perceivers interact with a stimulus. Sensation takes place which starts the perceptual process.

2. Perceptual Throughput:
Perceptual throughput is a transformation of perceptual input into output. The received stimuli of input are proceed through selection, organization, and interpretation. Through all individual go through this process they differ in how they select, organize, and interpret stimuli based on their own personality, predisposition, and biases. Situational factors and certain characteristics of the stimuli also influence how we select, organize, and interpret events. People selectively perceive certain things and ignore other. By selection certain aspects of stimuli some are screened out and others admitted .Those which are admitted remain in awareness of the people. And those which are screened out fall below the threshold. Example: When people read news paper they dont read entire news paper but they read only those news which interest them and similar things happen in other cases also.

3. Perceptual Output
Through the process, outputs are derived which includes once attitude, opinions, feeling, values and actions. Perceptual error may adversely affect the output. With less basis in perception we may perceive reality as it exists of with a minimum distortion. This helps us to form right attitude and engage in appropriate behavior.

Pictorial Representation of Perceptual Process.

Perceptual Input Throughput PerceptualOutput

The word "perception" comes from the Latin words perceptio, percipio, and means "receiving, collecting, action of taking possession, apprehension with the mind or senses. when you hear something your take a meaning out of it, you form what the intension of the sentence means and you take that meaning to make a decision or form conclusive understanding of the subject. perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information" "Perception is the process of making a meaning from the things we experience in the environment". how we form the meaning or the way we perceive things depends of our inner bias about it and what we believe about the subject therefore we interpret things as we want them to be or how our mind sees things to be.

Our perception is a process that takes shape depending on the environment and the kind of people we grow up with. We define things as bad, dangerous, unethical or immoral depending on our perception. We also interpret behaviors of other people depending on

our experience. "What one perceives is a result of interplays between past experiences, including one's culture, and the interpretation of the perceived. If the percept does not have support in any of these perceptual bases it is unlikely to rise above perceptual threshold". Recent experience of the subject can also influence your perception of a given subject. "It is all about how you perceive thing" Your may interpret one's activity to have good meaning to you, or may be important to you. Something you see as grossly unethical, or morally corrupting can be seen as something good by others. This is because their perception of the subject is different. "logical solutions are reached through simple human sensation

Resources. http://abdillahikahin.efoliomn.com/interpersonalperception
http://psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/ss/perceptproc_2.htm

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Name: Deep K Desai Roll No: 25 Div: A M.H.R.D Sem 1 Submitted to: Ms. Khyati Bhatt.