PERCEPTION

Perception is the process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions
in order to give
meaning to their environment
According to Kolasa, Perception is selection and organization of material which stems from
the outside
environment at one time or the other to provide the meaningful entity we experience.
According to S.P. Robbins, Perception may be defined as a process by which individuals
organize and
interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
According to Joseph Reitz, Perception includes all those processes by which an individual
receives
information about his environment seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling.

Features of Perception
The features of perception are:
1) Intellectual Process: Perception is the intellectual process through which a person selects
the data from the
environment, organizes it, and obtains meaning from it.
2) Cognitive or Psychological Process: Perception is a basic cognitive or psychological
process. The manner
in which a person perceives the environment affects his behavior. Thus, people's actions,
emotions,
thoughts, or feelings are triggered by the perception of their surroundings.
3) Subjective Process: Perception is a subjective process and different people may perceive
the same
environmental event differently based on what particular aspects of the situation they choose to
absorb, how
they organize this information, and the manner in which they interpret it to obtain the
understanding of the
situation.