This week we have been asked to write about perception. dictionary.com describes perception as " the act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding ". http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/perception A more academically relevant definition of perception is “ Perception is the process of sensing, selecting & interpreting consumer stimuli in the external world ” (Wilkie, 1994) My favourite definition of perception is from Wiktionary : " That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood ; also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc. " http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perception Perception is the active process of interpreting and organising sensations to produce a meaningful experience of the world. Perception differs from sensation in that sensation is...
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