What are the factors influencing perception?

Perception is the process by which an individual selects, organizes, and interprets information inputs to create a meaningful picture the world. Perception depends not only on the physical stimuli, but also on the stimuli’s relation to the surrounding field and on conditions within the individual. The key point is that perception can vary widely among individuals exposed to the same reality. One person might perceive a fast-talking salesperson an aggressive and insincere another, as intelligent and helpful. Each will respond differently to the salesperson.

Factors Influencing Perception:

How do we explain that individuals may look at the same thing, yet perceive it differently? A number of factors operate to shape and sometimes distort perception. These factors can reside in the perceiver in the object or target being perceived, or in the context of the situation in which the perception is made.

Factors that influence perception:

Perception

Factors in the perceiver

Attitudes

Motives

Interests

Experience

Expectations

Factors in the situation

Time

Work setting

Social setting

Factors in the target

Novelty

Motion

Sounds

Size

Background

Proximity

Similarity

When an individual looks at a target and attempts to interpret what he or she sees, that interpretation is heavily influenced by the personal characteristics of the individual perceiver. Personal characteristics that affect perception included a person’s attitudes, personality motives interest, past experiences, and expectations. For instance if you expect police officers to be authoritative, young people to be lazy, or individuals holding office to be unscrupulous, you may peeve them as such regardless of their cultural traits.

Characteristics of the target being observed affect what is perceived. Loud people are more likely to be noticed in a group than quiet ones. So, too, are extremely attractive or unattractive individuals. Because targets are not looked at in isolation, the relationship of a target to its background also influences perception, as does our tendency to group close things and similar things together. For instance, women people of color or members of any other group that has clearly distinguishable characteristics in terms of features or color are often perceived as alike in other, unrelated characteristics as well.

The context in which we see objects or events is also important. The time at which an object or event is seen can influence attention, as can location, light, heat, or any number of situational factors. For example, at a nightclub on Saturday night, you may not notice a 22 year old female dressed to the nines. Yet that same woman so attired for your Monday morning management class would certainly catch your attention (and that of the rest of the class). Neither the perceiver nor the target changed between Saturday night and Monday morning, but the situation is different.

Factors Influencing Perception

Factors Affecting Perception

Perception is not view point, or opinion.

(But world wide, the most commonly understood sense of it is opinion, view point. Also, it is not entirely wrong. Because, our view point or opinion is 'formed' out of what we perceive!).

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This view point or opinion can shift, change or vanish, as the input-perception becomes deeper and more clear. Seeing things in its total reality, as they are, is true perception. How much of this reality we see depends on our levels of perception. "Human" levels are through the sense organs. Please see, what ever we gather is only through these sense organs. The scope for further perception is available only to humans. The animals see better , run better, feel better is because there sense organs are better. Certain birds are said to build their nests a bit higher on the low hanging branches of a tree on the banks of River Ganges. They build sometime in February. That year, the rains happen more heavy, and the water level in the river would be higher during june/july etc. With the best of technology, we humans are unable to predict so well in February. This is perception (what the river water level will be 4 months ahead). Still, it is just at the bird's sensory level, and is an instinct of self-preservation/survival, needed by them. We have the choice to jump in the water when there is flood, and waste our life, if bored/frustrated!

The most important factor that influences perception is mind. That is why, the bulk of spiritual practices are meant to just quieten the mind. When the mind becomes quiet at will, perception deepens by itself, and we evolve into capabilities, beyond that of all the aggregate animals, creatures, other living being put together. This is something which cannot be logically accepted, nor understood, nor should be blindly believed. Blind beliefs forecloses the very possibility to 'see' and experience. When some stray capability creeps in, we give names like ESP, Siddhi, etc. It is still a uncommon capability, with no existential significance, if the quality of mind remains the same. It is almost like a bigger technology made available to a negative-minded person. It can do only some damage, nothing much creative. That is why, the mind has to become beautiful, tame, and capable of silencing itself at will!

How about Claude Monet? He was a painter who had the gift of creating paintings that appeared to the naked eye as images of gardens, ponds with lily pads, rivers with reflections, boats and cafes only when viewed from a distance. When viewing his paintings up close, revealed the true and abstract nature of each piece which all displayed formed by copious scribbles, smears and random brush strokes in all directions. I feel that there is an hidden message:Preconception that is fueled by ignorance is what strengthens chaos and havoc to prevail while concealed with false Beauty.

You have to read "I might be but only god knows" by Richardson Dx

He talks about perception, senses and all those factors in it!

This book is a fiction with a pretty deep and developed interpretation of the meaning of our senses, how we interact with reality and/or our illusions

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1. background (ie religion, values, etc.) 2. your connection with what you are perceiving (ie seeing bad behaviour in your kids compared to other people's kids or past experience you've had with the same situation) 3. your personality (ie if you're more likely to see the cynical side in life or the positive) Interesting

Humans perceive the size of the world based on all of the following factors except __________.

A.

the number of miles around the Equator

B.

how long it takes to get somewhere

C.

how quickly they can communicate with someone

D.

the amount of time it takes to ship goods somewhere

Yes. In no particular order:

1.) Your actual senses and how sensitive they are.

2.) Any tools you may be using to augment your senses (and how reliable THEY are)

3.) Cultural biases (including and not limited to political, aesthetic, religious and ethical)

4.) Your physical state of being (health, energy level, hunger, thirst, etc)

5.) Your mental state

6.) Context

7.) Subtext

8.) Knowledge

9.) Training

Education, emotion, experience, belief...it all influences your perception. What you perceive as reality is merely the distorted shadow of realty upon the wall of your conscience.