Perception Influence On Perception

Perception is a major factor of our lives and serves as the foundation of what we see, think, and are as individuals. To put it into a definition, perception is simply the process of recognizing and interpreting sensory stimuli. First, we will first go over the concept of perception and what it actually is into greater detail. Perception is composed of your five senses, and while at a glance this seems simple, each sense has a great amount of depth to it. An example of a factor that impacts our perception is our sense of smell. Smell is basic, and yet humans have been conditioned to associate certain smells with a particular feeling, which in other words, affects our perception of smells. If you're at all familiar with it, consider the smell of death. The decay and rotting of an animal generally brings out feelings of sickness, disgust, and danger depending on the situation. This is because humans perceive the smell of death to be that of something associated with these feelings. On the flip-side, you could apply this same logic

Well, I have personally noticed this same pattern among many questions regarding psychology; both of these things apply to and influence our perception. This question is essentially asking if our perception stems from Nature or Nurture, but the catch is that both of these ideas work together, and so are almost always both involved. On the nature side of things, our perception of the world is enabled and processed by our five senses, two of which we went over near the beginning of the essay. Meanwhile, the nurture side of our perception is influenced by our perspectives in life, that of which lie as a result of our peers, parents, and culture. Only when all of these things are combined can you truly understand that what we perceive is influenced by the world all around