Perception And Reality : The Reality Of An Absolute And Concrete Reality

Perception is a crucially important way for most of the organisms to observe and react to the environment. Its definition in Oxford Dictionary of English is “the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses” (“Perception”). However, for human, the most intelligent organism on earth, perception has an another meaning: “The way in which something is regard, understood, or interpreted” (“Perception”). People can not only be aware of the environment through senses, but also gain new knowledge by interpreting the observation.

A relatively famous, but unattributed quote is, “Perception is Reality.” Do you agree with this? What implications does this concept have on managing others? View the short video posted and comment on the impact of perception and presentation. How might this impact the way in which managers present tasks/rewards, etc. to subordinates?

Social Psychology is defined as “a subfield in psychology that focuses on social interaction between people, how people influence and are influenced by others, and the relationship between the individual’s behaviors/cognitions and that of others in a group” (Robertson, 2002-2015). Within that subfield there are many theories and concepts that explain these feelings, thoughts, and beliefs that are constructed and how psychological factors influence our interactions with others. The topics examined in social psychology include social influence, social perception, and Lawrence Kohlberg’s Ladder of Reasoning. All of these concepts have a major impact in our society and world order; both positive and negative.

The opening statement of the article Looks can deceive: Why Perception and Reality Don't Always Match Up by Christof Koch reads as follows; “When you are facing a tricky task, your view of the world may not be as accurate as you think” (Koch, 2010) In this article Koch argues that a human’s conscious perception of the world is neither static or accurate. That people everywhere are incapable of being one hundred percent objective and therefore their awareness of objects surrounding them is dependent on factors such as personal strength, confidence, fears and desires. Koch states that being human is equal to “seeing the world through your own, constantly shifting, lens” (Koch, 2010)

Societal pressures have an impact on how a person can think or act. As Lee Ross author of obedience once said, “ people’s inflated belief in the importance of personality traits and disposition, together with their failure to recognize the importance of situational factors in affecting behavior”(Ross, 628). The follower problem, a book written by David brooks makes the statement “these days many Americans seem incapable of thinking for themselves”(Brooks, 650). Doris Lessing a claim “how often we'd say black was white because other people were saying it”(Lessing 652).So why do people react act like this. Outside influences have a huge impact on how people react and make their decisions. If you are by yourself and

Out of around 7.347 billion people in the world, there is not one person who is the exact same. We all have physical differences, we all talk differently, think differently, we have different interests, motivated differently, different drives, desires, we all have different goals and dreams.

We all live in a separate world from one another. While we all physically inhabit the same celestial body, we dwell in a mental and emotional realm distinct to ourselves. We’re drastically separated by our individual, diverse realities; each person's world their own intricate puzzle; seldom akin, all difficulty decipherable, and all a layered mystery thats solution is seemingly unobtainable.

The line separating reality and the illusion of reality is a blur. The line separating the narrator’s self-aware expression and his story telling is a blur. The line separating Ambrose and the narrator is a blur. All of this may blur understanding. It is clear, however, that these blurs exist because of the “funhouse”. A funhouse, Lost in the funhouse, in which exist other funhouses. Various funhouses exist in the story and in the writing. For this reason, the title Lost in the funhouse is very significant.

In the world we live in today, it is often hard to have the “perfect” personality. Nobody is perfect, and society is always telling us who we should be and how to act. In all reality, everyone is different, and people are perceived in many different ways by different people. I was once asked if I had to limit myself to five words that summed up my personality, what would they be? I believe that I am confident, determined, stubborn, responsible and sarcastic. The first four traits I have probably developed because of my participation in martial arts over nine years. I have developed the sense of knowing right and wrong, and I was always told to believe in myself and to never give up. I know when I want to achieve something, and even if I am

Philosophy has been a long running attempt to correctly identify and describe the nature of reality. The time-honored disciplines that have most notably devoted great effort into this task have been epistemology and metaphysics. In each of these mediums philosophers from Plato to Kant, believe it was necessary to separate human inconsistencies from philosophical inquiry. In both branches, philosophers seek to define things as they actually are, rather than any subjective interpretation of the world. Despite all of the different arguments used to find truth, all of them rest under the umbrella of a finality. Plato believed that the essence of something had to be found,in order to truly define what that thing is. Meaning that if I wanted to know what truly makes a chair a chair, I would need to know chairness itself. Any experience of a chair is an insufficient method to learning of it’s properties, since said experience is inconsistent. One could say that a fundamental property of a chair is having four legs, which would suggest a horse is a chair. Furthermore, even if we said that a chair’s chairness is it’s function, we could also extend that logic to anything we can sit on. This would lead one to believe that experience is not a good tool for finding out the nature of the world.

Two people are in a room having a conversation. While both of these people were fully involve in the conversation and paying close attention, both will leave the conversation with slightly different perceptions. They will have different feelings about what was said, will remember different parts of the conversation and will have different attitudes. This is because while both people were experiencing the same situation, their reality was different. Reality is objective because people are primed differently and have different life experiences that will cause them to perceive the situation differently.

How does one align perception so that it best matches reality, and why does one need to do so? Imagine a scenario where a customer confronts a retail worker. The customer wanted to return her bed set because it did not meet her expectations. However, per store policy, the employee is not to process this returns due to sanitary reasons. The customer refuses to accept defeat and continues to argue with the employee for what it seems like 2 hours. In the end, the worker concluded that the customer was an overall rude, stubborn, and disrespectful human being. However, that perception was far from reality since the customer was affected by her bipolar disorder. Normally, the customer is as sweet as can be. Perception, in this case, does not have the full context and is based on only a few factors.

As I prepared to re-enter life as a college student after a few years away from the classroom, I wanted to be intentional with the classes I choose. Yes, I need to fulfill the art requirement for my degree, so there is a larger picture at play, though I believe this course can also meet my desire to learn about how people would illustrate self-expression with the resources available to them at that particular time.

Peter Berger’s and Thomas Luckmann’s novel, “The Social Construction of Reality”, explains the theory of how we, as humans, present ourselves to other people mainly from our interactions with others and our personal life experiences. The novel explains how the way we were raised or brought up and what we were raised to believe, affects how we present ourselves, how we view others, and how others view us. It also explains the idea that as humans, our perceptions of reality are influenced by our beliefs and backgrounds.

Imagine you are watching a group of Hawaiian women dancing to soft and filling ukulele music. Your Hawaiian friend, watching with you, exclaimed, “What a beautiful story!” You keep staring but neither see nor hear any story. You merely hear a pleasant melody and see some women waving their arms and wiggling. As your friend explains the meaning of each dance movements you begin to recognize a charming story about the wind.