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