Perception

  

Perception
Perception is a sensory experience of the world or environment around us and involves recognition of environmental situation itself and the action in response to that situation. Perception refers to interpretation of what we take in through our senses. That’s why perception includes our five senses such as: touch, sight, taste smell and taste. Besides that, the way people thinking or percepts are determined with how much they have information about the properties or elements in the environment. So, with the overview of perceptions and trough perceptual process, we will learn more about how we think about the stimuli in the information based on that information. Most people think the perception itself was made by our past experience. Although perception is likely to be shaped by individual experience, culture has a greater influence over how we see the world.

This essay will focus on to what extent perception is shaped by individual experience or cultural values. First, it will explore about how perception is made by individual experience and how cultural values itself influences our perception. At last, it will explain about the relations between culture and individual experiment in influencing the way of thinking or perception.

Every perception a people had is based on their own individual experience. If two or more people were asked about one thing based on their perception, probably it will show us different opinion because not everyone has the same experiences. Reid (1786) said that once perception links with sensation, a function of the brain itself, the experience of the senses creates a link with experiences of the brain, connecting feelings to the immediate. It means the experiences that we have done were stored in our brain and we can immediately detecting the stimuli of nature based on our experience so that in the following event we can interact with the nature with our perception. If there are 2 children were asked to smell a...