Midterm exam perception.docx (1) PSYC-304 Midterm Exam Perception PSYC-304 1. Descr

Midterm  exam  perception.docx (1)  PSYC-304  Midterm Exam  Perception PSYC-304  1.  Describe the process of perception as a series of steps, beginning with the environmental stimulus and culminating in the behavioral responses of perceiving, recognizing, and acting.  Perception refers to the brain's ability to receive, organize, and distribute an outside stimulus or sensory information to a specific area of the cortex for interpretation to produce a conscious experience. (Rose M. Spielman, Apr 22, 2020) it can also be described as an individual's interpretation of a sensation (Clark, Douglas, Choi. 2018). Through perception, individuals can make judgments about the environment that surrounds them and identify things like shapes and colors through vision, noises, and sounds through hearing, and flavors and smell through tasting and smelling. Most of the things an individual perceives are the product of loads of information