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Select → organize → interpret
📌 Personality is a psychological question, whereas identity is a sociological question connected to perception.
1. What does perception enable a person to do?
2. Which example best illustrates physical perception?
3. Which sequence best describes how perception processes environmental information?
What is perception in cognitive terms?
A cognitive process that enables interpretation and understanding of the environment.
What does physical perception involve?
Gathering information through the five senses and adding meaning to it.
Which three steps does perception use to process environmental information?
Selective attention, organization and categorization, and interpretation.
Why is perception unique to each individual?
Because people perceive the world around them differently.
How does perception act as a mechanism?
As a translation and distortion mechanism.
What is social perception?
The process by which people come to understand one another.
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