![]() ![]() ![]() Even when one is five blocks away from one's car and it seems no larger than one's fingernail, one would interpret it as that it is still one's car and that it hasn't actually changed size. You have learned that their actual size remains constant, despite the illusion. Through past experiences we have learned that objects do not grow or shrink as we walk toward or away from them. In such a situation none of us, however, would gasp in horror and cry out, "My car is shrinking!" Although the sensory perception is that the car is shrinking rapidly, we do not interpret that the car is changing size. As he goes further and further away from his car, it will appear to him as if his car is gradually getting smaller and smaller. Suppose a person parks his car and walks away from it while continuing to look back at it. The following situation will illustrate how perception correlates with previous experience: In other words, perception represents our apprehension of a present situation in terms of our past experiences, or, as stated so succinctly by the philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): "We see things not as they are but as we are." ![]() Of course, lack of experience may cause a person to misinterpret what he has seen or heard. In essence then, perception means interpretation. Subsequently one has to interpret whatever one has seen or heard. In other words, perception must take place.īefore one can learn anything, one has to become aware of it through one of the senses. When a reader concentrates on a written message, the next step is that the message must be perceived. This article focuses on the role of visual perception in the reception of the written message. Visual perception plays a major role in the reception of the message. However, for the purpose of this discussion, these actions will be divided into steps, and a schematic diagram representing these steps of the reading act is shown below. The reading act is a unitary occurrence, meaning that the actions taking place while one is reading occur simultaneously. There is a communicator (the author of the book that the reader is reading), there is a message (transferred to the reader via symbols on paper), and there is a recipient of the message (the reader). Reading must be regarded as an act of communication. ![]()
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