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The Influence Of Perception

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INTRODUCTION
Perception refers to the process of identifying and understanding sensory stimuli. It is a process using which information from the environment is interpreted and changed into something that involves sounds, experiences or objects. Perception majorly includes different physiological activities of the brain and of all our senses, which assimilate and translate sensory inputs. These processes are said to be assembled from various sources of data, prospects and hypothesis from the stimuli. Additionally, a lot of research and investigations have been performed to draw attention towards this and the inhibitions in context to the processing of information and many researchers have also suggested segregation between automatic and controlled …show more content…

They proposed that the type of processing that requires a person to be conscious and aware towards performing a task is controlled processing which is slowly occurring and is limited by capacity whereas, in automatic processing, it occurs very fast, there is difficulty in modifying or changing, unavoidable and in contrast to controlled processing isn’t affected by capacity limitations. This model provides us and helps one correlate it with the discovery of the Strop effect, where it specifies that once a person develops the automatic skill to read, it becomes difficult to modify, which gives an answer for controlled process where there is no difficulty faced in reading the given word but to identify the color of the ink in which it has been written. In addition to this, Stroop’s research is also reinforced by Morton and Chambers’s speed processing model(1973) which suggested that people have an ability to read faster than to be able to state colors. They claimed that because reading is said to be very natural and automatic while stating colors is not, there is a clash in the information from various factors when a person is naming colors. It is because of this that people commit mistakes and taken a ling time to …show more content…

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