The Importance Of The Perception Process

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”(Harper Lee). Every human being tends to view certain things in their own different and unique way. Perception is one of the most antique aspects of human interaction and behavior. How we perceive things is different than others, some will see the glass either half empty or as half full it just depends how we look at things. In the book there is a whole section dedicated to the "Perception Process". Perception Process literally is the sequence of steps that sequentially involves selection of stimuli in the environment, organization of that information, and interpretation of those stimuli. The perception process is "critical to our ability to function because it gives us the ability to organize our perceptions because it is simply too complicated to be aware of everything around us, it doesn 't matter how attentive we may be its too hard to be aware of everything."(Adler and Proctor 79). The perception process is divided into four main categories, "selection", "organization", "interpretation", and "negotiation". The first step selection helps us notice items that are to

Negotiation is "A big part of sense-making occurs between and among people as they influence one another 's perceptions and try to achieve a shared perspective."(Adler and Proctor 85). Negotiation usually starts up when two people are trying to exchange stories. People often believe that their reason is the best and that the other needs to come to an agreement that theirs is the right answer which can lead to heated arguments. A common example of negotiation is the fighting between siblings, for example, two twin boys got in a fight with each other, their mother ask both of them what had happen and both the boys will describe how the other is responsible for starting the