CMN 1148 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Selective Perception, Plastic Surgery, Brail
23 Feb 2016
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Perception: the process of sensing, interpreting and reaction to the physical world. Perception is learned and backward looking: culture bound, racially biased, self-serving, spontaneous, unconscious, value driven, mood dependent, context bound, completion seeking etc: all affect perception interactions with others. As infants we learn to organize information via senses (sight being key: no one operating on its own. Sounds played while eating influence the way we perceive taste: less taste in high sounds in a plane with plane food, eating faster when music is at a more rapid pace, ocean sounds making seafood taste better. Further practice allows for deciphering that would previously be indistinguishable: smell associated with certain people, places or things. Culture plays a large role: delicacies in different cultures depicting what is. Delicious" based on their senses: haggis, chocolate insects, etc. The nature of perception that is backward looking in its interpretation of the present: we constantly anticipate the past***
