What is Perception ? What are it's characteristics ?
PERCEPTION Perception can be defined as the meaningful interpretation of information received by the senses. In other words, it is a process in which the sensory experience is organized, interpreted and made meaningful. Some important characteristics of perception are as follows: 1. Perception is a selective process: We do not perceive each and everything in the world or around us. We attend to only a part of the stimuli around us. We select only a limited range of stimuli to which we attend. Attention is a basic process in perception. It makes our perception selective in nature. What we select would depend upon our needs, interests, and motives or on the nature of stimuli to which we are exposed. 2. Perception requires sensation: Perception is intimately related to sensation. In order for perception to occur, we must first experience some sensation. 3. Perception involves organization: Perception is not merely a collection of present sensations and memory traces of past experien...