Carolyn Chan HUC101.1219 3/20/06 Essay 2 QUIZ 1 People all over the world have different perception, some are shallow, and some are deep. However, perception is the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information in order to give personal meaning to the communication we receive. There are three steps in perception, these are: selection, organization, and interpretation. However, cognitive complexity affects our perception of the world. It changes the way people communicate with others. First, our human brain cannot stimulate large amount of information, want and we only puts in what we are interested. Selection is the sorting of one stimulus from another. Moreover, there are three kinds of selection: selective exposure, which is the deliberate choices we make to experience or to avoid particular stimuli. It is the selecting of one thing over another that are in the same category, like between explicated song lyrics and a clean song lyrics; selective attention, which is the focusing on specific stimuli while ignoring or downplaying other stimuli. Concentrating to the things or information that interest you, and trying to eliminate other extra stimuli; and selective retention, which is the processing, storing, and retrieving of information that we have already selected, organized, and interpreted. Selective retention happens because only portions of information retain, and as I have said earlier, human brain cannot stimulate large amount of information. Second, if the information or things that are needed to be perceive is not organize, no matter how good the person what will perceives, it would probably takes time to understand what's the information was about. Organization is the categorizing of stimuli in our environment in order to make sense of them. It plays an important role in how we perceive and communicate about events, objects, and people. For example, I have been invited on my friend's birthday party, just when I enter the room, I first spread my sight to the people and look for my friends, so I won't be left alone with the people I don't know. Third, if you know how to select, and organize, but you don't know how to interpret, these things are nothing. Interpretation is the assigning of meaning to stimuli. It 1 Carolyn Chan HUC101.1219 3/20/06 Essay 2 is important to interpret the things that we see, feel, hear, smell, and taste, because this influence on how we perceive and communicate. Opinions, past and present experiences also help us interpret things. Finally, in our world, cognitive complexity have some effect on people perceiving thing around. However, this differs from people to people. For a child, they have simple cognitive system, unlike adults that can distinguish between and among different experiences that help develop their cognitive system. Cognitive complexity changes the way people communicate with others; interpret things and situations; and help consider multiple perspectives of the changing world. To wrap up, perception is connected to cognitive complex. Perception helps people to select, organize, and interpret things that are important in the world of communication. And also, cognitive complexity is the mental structure that we use to shape our perception. 2