AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Perception is the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information from our senses. Selection: Focusing attention on certain sights, sounds, tastes, touches, or smells in your environment. Something that seems especially noticeable and significant is considered salient.

Detailed explanation-2: -Perception: the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information.

Detailed explanation-3: -Perception refers to the process of acquiring, interpreting, and representing incoming sensory information.

Detailed explanation-4: -Organizing is the second part of the perception process, in which we sort and categorize information that we perceive based on innate and learned cognitive patterns. Three ways we sort things into patterns are by using proximity, similarity, and difference (Coren, 1980).

Detailed explanation-5: -Perception refers to the way sensory information is organized, interpreted, and consciously experienced. Perception involves both bottom-up and top-down processing.