Factors Influencing Perception: Gaining Understanding through Experience

Resumen

Within the broad framework of perceptual selectivity and perceptual organization fall numerous general factors related to what one perceives. This paper presents an experiential exercise through which one can gain exposure to seven of the more significant of these general factors. The perceptual factors introduced in this exercise include: response disposition, feelings toward the subject or object, response salience, intensity of the stimulus, motion, size of the object, and the impact of the physical environment on perception.