"Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment."
Examining how individuals interpret and make sense of information received and how it affects communication with oneself and others.
Perception: Understanding Perception and its role in intrapersonal communication.
Schemas and Scripts: Understanding the role of Schemas and Scripts in Perception and intrapersonal communication.
Stereotypes and Prejudices: Understanding the role of Stereotypes and Prejudices in Perception and intrapersonal communication.
Perception Errors: Understanding the different Perception Errors that people make in intrapersonal communication.
Attribution Theory: Understanding Attribution Theory and its role in Perception and intrapersonal communication.
Self-Concept: Understanding the role of Self-Concept in Perception and intrapersonal communication.
Self-Esteem: Understanding the role of Self-Esteem in Perception and intrapersonal communication.
Self-Monitoring: Understanding the role of Self-Monitoring in Perception and intrapersonal communication.
Self-Disclosure: Understanding the role of Self-Disclosure in Perception and intrapersonal communication.
Perception of Emotion: Understanding how we perceive emotions in ourselves and others and how it affects intrapersonal communication.
Visual Perception: The ability to interpret and make sense of the visual information received through the eyes.
Auditory Perception: The ability to interpret and make sense of the auditory information received through the ears.
Tactile Perception: The ability to interpret and make sense of the touch sensations received through the skin.
Olfactory Perception: The ability to interpret and make sense of the smells received through the nose.
Gustatory Perception: The ability to interpret and make sense of the taste sensations received through the tongue.
Proprioception: The ability to perceive the position and movement of various body parts relative to each other and to the environment.
Kinesthetic Perception: The ability to perceive the movement of the body in space.
Vestibular Perception: The ability to perceive the orientation and movement of the head and body in relation to gravity.
Interoception: The ability to perceive the physiological states of the body such as hunger, thirst, pain, and temperature.
Extra-sensory Perception (ESP): A controversial ability to perceive information beyond the traditional senses, such as telepathy, precognition, or clairvoyance.
"All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system."
"Vision involves light striking the retina of the eye."
"Smell is mediated by odor molecules."
"Hearing involves pressure waves."
"Perception is not only the passive receipt of these signals, but it is also shaped by the recipient's learning, memory, expectation, and attention."
"Sensory input is a process that transforms this low-level information to higher-level information (e.g., extracts shapes for object recognition)."
"A person's concepts and expectations (or knowledge), restorative and selective mechanisms (such as attention) influence perception."
"Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness."
"Since the rise of experimental psychology in the 19th century, psychology's understanding of perception has progressed by combining a variety of techniques."
"Psychophysics quantitatively describes the relationships between the physical qualities of the sensory input and perception."
"Sensory neuroscience studies the neural mechanisms underlying perception."
"Perceptual systems can also be studied computationally, in terms of the information they process."
"Perceptual issues in philosophy include the extent to which sensory qualities such as sound, smell, or color exist in objective reality rather than in the mind of the perceiver."
"There is still active debate about the extent to which perception is an active process of hypothesis testing, analogous to science, or whether realistic sensory information is rich enough to make this process unnecessary."
"The perceptual systems of the brain enable individuals to see the world around them as stable, even though the sensory information is typically incomplete and rapidly varying."
"Human and other animal brains are structured in a modular way, with different areas processing different kinds of sensory information."
"These different modules are interconnected and influence each other."
"For instance, taste is strongly influenced by smell."
"The study of illusions and ambiguous images has demonstrated that the brain's perceptual systems actively and pre-consciously attempt to make sense of their input."