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Perception Theories Assignment

   

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Perception Theories

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION Perception is a process through which people interprets outside information fromenvironment and make views about it. The information is selected and interpreted by individual.This meaningful content is then used to make decisions. Sensory impressions are organised byindividual in order to get meaning of that. Present essay describes about two theories which arerelated to perception. Moreover, comparison of these theories and contrast has been illustrated inthe essay.Theory of naive realism and representative theory is described in the essay.Similarities and differences between both the theories have been illustrated. Perception In simple words, perception refers to the level of understanding towards the externalenvironment (Bruwer, 2014). In the psychology it refers to the process of the recognising andinterpreting sensory stimuli. Broadly there are two types of perception that are internal andexternal (Gibb and Gray, 2016). Internal perception refers to the awareness of mental act present in the human bodies andon the other than external perception refers to the inner and organ sense. There are differenttypes of theories which are involved perception (Gould and Taylor, 2017). Some of them aregiven below. The information is selected and interpreted by individual. Naive Realism This theory is related to the social psychology. As according to this theory describes thathuman see world on the basis of objects. and those people who are disagreed must be irrationalor biased (Jacobsen Hvitved and Andersen, 2014). This theory is also called theory of directrealism. There are different types of assumptions which are followed by this theory. The firstassumption of this theory is that human see the world objectively. They expect that other willalso come with similar conclusion and the person, who do not follow the similar view must beignorant, irrational or biased (Nadel, 2013). Naive realism followed social psychology in themodern world. Naive realism gives a base for various cognitive biases which generally includesmistakes and errors in decision making activity. Errors includes impact of false statements, blindspot bias and error and fundamental attribution. The theory is based on following beliefs: World is full of materialistic things and objects. 1

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