GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

General Psychology

General Psychology

Question 1:

Perception refers to the way we try to understand the world around us. We gather information through our five sense organs, but perception adds meaning to these sensory inputs. The process of perception is essentially subjective in nature, as it is never an exact recording of the event or the situation. Perception is the process by which we organize and interpret our sensory impressions in order to give meaning to the environment (Gladwell 2000). As pointed out, a situation may be the same but the interpretation of that situation by two individuals may be immensely different. ...