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===The types of Perception===
===The types of Perception===
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# Vision
# Vision
# Touch
# Touch
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# Taste
# Taste
# Smell
# Smell
The type mainly focused on when handling the topic of perception is the visual one. Visual perception showing and inzerpreting
the external world. Though ones visual Perception can only be told through speech and thus be perceived by other individuals through auditory perception.
Sensory receptors send information gathered from signals to the brain for processing. Leading to stimulation of the sensory system.
Sensory receptors send information gathered from signals to the brain for processing. Leading to stimulation of the sensory system.


For example: Light striking retina of the eye (recepting light), Odor molecules (receptiing smell).
For example: Light striking retina of the eye (recepting light), Odor molecules (receptiing smell).
Therefore sensory data forms our perceptual reality.
Therefore sensory data forms our perceptual reality.
 
The information perceived goes trough the stages of perception.


===The stages of Perception===
===The stages of Perception===