People look into things with different perspectives. Why is this occuring? We all engage in selection or choosing some stimuli while ignoring others. A person's habit, values and outlook on life determines where you come from and where you are. The study is perceptual process is affected by three class of variables, that is objects being perceived, the environment where it takes place and the activity of individual at that time. For understanding human behaviour, perception can be taken into account. While looking at a target, what the person tries to interpret is heavily influenced by his/her attitude, personality, motives, interests, past experiences and expectations. The process allows to experience the world around us which is largely a cognitive and psychological process. Three stages of are selection, organization and interpretation. Some errors in perception are illusion, hallucination, halo effect, stereotyping, similarity, horns effect, contrast etc. Information about this topic is described in detail in the presentation slides.

Saranya R Kurup

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