If you lie on the grass and look at the clouds, you will see the clouds first. After a while, the images may begin to form in the clouds. Once you see it, it's hard to see it again without looking at the clouds. If you look long enough and then look away, the image may still appear. This is an example of awareness.

What is Perception?

Our brain tries to process images by identifying them, arranging them in patterns, and interpreting the sensory information to make sense of the world in which we live. Admission is a personalization process. Different people perceive the same situation in different ways. Let's go back to that lazy dream where you're lying on the grass looking at the clouds and your best friend is lying next to you looking at the clouds. Your friend can see different images from you in the clouds and you can imagine or imagine what your friend sees and vice versa. Our brain processes different sensory information at the same time. Different senses are interconnected and influence each other. For example, the smell of big, ripe strawberries can make you want to eat them quickly. This happens without our conscious awareness. When we receive sensory information, we can translate it into perceptions about flowers, food, cars, animals, and other objects that we see all the time.

We can define perception as the ability to process information received from the senses. The definition of perceptual psychology is the study of how the information provided by the senses is processed.

Researchers have developed several theories about perception over time. Their arguments are mostly valid but far from consensus, so it is important to see the psychology of acceptance as a work in progress.

Tidying up: 6 basic principles for tidying up

Without conscious effort, our brain tries to put things together that help us understand and interpret the world. There are six basic principles of organizing things.

Similarity

Similarity means grouping similar things together. Elements of the same shape, size, and color are part of a pattern that belongs to each other.

Proximity

Proximity is grouping things by how close they are physical. The closer they are to each other, the more we see them as a group, even if they are not related.

Continuity

Continuity is the tendency to group things based on patterns. That is, we see objects of similar size, shape, and color as a whole.

Inclusive

Inclusion means looking at all elements of an image before looking at parts of it. For example, we first look at the whole cloud before looking at the image. 

Closure

Closure means looking at the partial picture and filling in the gaps of what we are thinking. It is the ability to ignore the fact that the picture is only half and can be seen as a whole.

Pragnanz

The word pragnanz means fullness or completeness. It refers to our ability to see perception as an ongoing and dynamic process. We tend to accept something until we conclude that it makes the most sense and completeness. This is often referred to as a good gestalt. An example of this is young children who ask a few questions to understand something and gather thoughts.

Responsive psychology according to Bruner

Jeron S. Bruner is an American psychologist who developed the receptive model. Brunner posited that people go through a series of processes before forming an opinion about what they see. How does our brain process sensory information about unfamiliar objects? Bruner believed that we are open to a variety of informational cues that tell us more about things. It searches for additional information about the object until it encounters a familiar signal. Only then can we begin to categorize the images in our minds. If the signal is distorted or does not match the original observation, it can be actively ignored until all misaligned images are removed. We end with this because we managed to form a coherent picture.

At the moment

Psychologists believe that neither bottom-up nor top-down theories can explain perception in all cases. We should consider reception research as a work in progress. If we look at all the theories and studies about the psychology of perception, it's easy to see why it can be easily confused whether a problem is real or whether our perception of the problem is bothering us. One way to help you understand this is to connect with a therapist who will listen to your point of view and help you put things into perspective.