Monday, October 29, 2012

Week 2: 1) Seeing and Perception



1)      Perception are the foundation for our understanding of the world. Humans tend to form whole perceptions from partial images. This is part of the human's natural ability to quickly interpret limited information.




Perception is an active mental restoration of the real world that surrounds us. As a result, our brain take to pieces what appears in our eyes into some kind of information that match up in the final analysis to a sort of emblematic representation of the outside world.




What we perceive really depends our cognitive decisions and conclusions. The brain usually makes these on its own without us having to bother. In doing so, it uses previously collected knowledge, experience, expectations, and prejudices.  Once the brain has learned something, it is often no longer especially bothered about the actual realities.



  Perception is the interpretation, the meaning you give to what you see, what you hear and others. It is one’s personal experience of the world and therefore grew accustomed to it. 


 Due to this personal experience, individual react to new events with reference to ‘their world’ and they filter all new experiences through it. Put another way, a man project ‘his world’ onto new events to make sense of them. If something does not fit ‘his world’, he often simply discards it. 

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