The document discusses perception and the perceptual process. It defines perception as the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information to represent and understand the environment. The perceptual process involves two stages - processing sensory input into higher-level information, and processing based on a person's knowledge and expectations. Features like constancy, grouping, contrast effects, experience, and motivation and expectations can influence perception. How people perceive situations affects their behavior, as perception impacts whether one sees situations positively or negatively. The conclusion emphasizes that perception is important for human behavior and how people deal with problems.

1. Submitted By: Pravesh Kaswa
Submitted To: Prof. Kiran Jha

2. Contents
 Introduction
 What is Perception
 Process of Perception
 Features which affects Perception
 How Perception affects Human Behaviour
 Conclusion

3. Introduction
 The perceptual process allows us to experience the world
around us. Take a moment to think of all the things you
perceive on a daily basis. At any given moment, you might
see familiar objects in your environment, feel the touch of
objects and people against your skin, smell the aroma of a
home-cooked meal and hear the sound of music playing in
your next door neighbour's apartment. All of these things
help make up our conscious experience and allow us to
interact with the people and objects around us.
 In this overview of perception and the perceptual process,
we will learn more about how we go from detecting stimuli
in the environment to actually taking action based on that
information.

4. What Is Perception
Perception is the organization, identification,
and interpretation of sensory information in
order to represent and understand the
environment.
All perception involves signals in the nervous
system, which in turn result from physical or
chemicalstimulationof thesenseorgans.

5. Process of Perception
 Perception can be split into two processes Firstly
processing sensory input which transforms these low-
level information to higher-level information.
Secondly processing which is connected with person's
concept and expectations (knowledge), and selective
mechanisms that influence perception.
 Perception depends on complex functions of the
nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly
effortless because this processing happens outside
conscious awareness.

6. Features which affects Perception
 Constancy
 Grouping
 Contrast effects
 Effect of experience
 Effect of motivation and expectation

7. Constancy
 Perceptual constancy refers to the tendency to
perceive an object you are familiar with as having a
constant shape, size, and brightness despite the
stimuli changes that occur.

8. Grouping
 Perceptual grouping refers to the process of
determining which regions and parts of the visual
scene belong together as parts of higher order
perceptual units such as objects or patterns.
Closure Continuity Similarity Proximity

9. Contrast Effect
 When we make decisions, we tend to do it by
contrasting between the decision item and reference
items. When two things appear close to one another,
we will tend to evaluate them against one another
more than against a fixed standard.

11. Effect of Experience
 With experience, organisms can learn to make finer
perceptual distinctions, and learn new kinds of
categorization. Wine-tasting, the reading of X-ray
images and music appreciation are applications of this
process in the human sphere. Research has focused on
the relation of this to other kinds of learning, and
whether it takes place in peripheral sensory systems or
in the brain's processing of sense information.

12. How Perception effect Human
Behaviour?

13. Perception Vs. Reality

14. Conclusion
 I have seen people facing many problems; sometimes they
are able to solve them and sometimes not. Every person
tends to view things in different ways and with their own
perspective.
 Perception is one of the most important aspects of human
behaviour. Depending on how we perceive things, we may
see the glass either as half-empty or as half-full. The more
positively we perceive situations and circumstances the
more efficiently we are able to avert a crisis. People who
tend to see the world in an optimistic manner generally
make better leaders and are able to communicate messages
to their co-workers and subordinates in a more positive and
more effective way.

15. Thank You