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Reflections (Perception and Conceptualization)

Perception refers to how individuals interpret sensory information and react to stimuli in the world around them. It involves several processes - selection where one focuses on specific stimuli, organization where experiences are compared to new stimuli, and interpretation where stimuli are understood and categorized. There are two types of perception theories - bottom up which is activated by external stimuli, and top down which involves existing knowledge to process information. Gestalt principles is a theory of visual perception involving laws of proximity, similarity, continuation and closure which influence how objects are perceived as a whole. As a teacher, applying Gestalt principles like a double bubble map can help students understand similarities, while being open-minded to different student perspectives is also important.

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Reflections (Perception and Conceptualization)

Perception refers to how individuals interpret sensory information and react to stimuli in the world around them. It involves several processes - selection where one focuses on specific stimuli, organization where experiences are compared to new stimuli, and interpretation where stimuli are understood and categorized. There are two types of perception theories - bottom up which is activated by external stimuli, and top down which involves existing knowledge to process information. Gestalt principles is a theory of visual perception involving laws of proximity, similarity, continuation and closure which influence how objects are perceived as a whole. As a teacher, applying Gestalt principles like a double bubble map can help students understand similarities, while being open-minded to different student perspectives is also important.

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Perception and Conceptualization

Perception refers to the process how individuals interpret sensory information (hear, listen, smell,
sight, taste). Perception normally occurs when the organism recognizes stimuli and react to these
stimuli. Perception also refers to the way we try to understand the world around us. For instance,
a group of children who was walking to the kitchen smells a scent of cinnamon rolls. In this situation,
the smelling receptors are activated and the scent of cinnamon rolls act as a stimulus. After that, this
group of children will start making different perceptions and guesses of food that was being cooked.
Some will say that it is a cake, candy floss and cinnamon rolls. Different perceptions will occur
because of different current moods, different existing knowledge and also different cultural
perspectives.

Perception will undergo several processes: -

(i)The first process that occurred is selection. Selection is the process when the organism is choosing
something to focus on, as humans only have the ability to focus one thing at one time. In classroom
situation, students will choose to focus on their teachers instead of the clock ticking. Next,
organization is another process under perception.

(ii) Organization is the process of students analyse the situation and compare it to past experience.
For instance, students will think that the topic is important when that teacher wrote it in red ink.

(iii) Last but not least, interpretation is the last process of perception. Interpretation is the process
where we understand the stimuli and organized them into categories. For instance, in this situation,
topic that is written in red ink act as stimulus. Students will assume that the topic will be tested in
examination based on their past experiences.

There are two types of perception. (Bottom Up Processing Theory and Top Down Processing Theory).
Bottom up theory only occurs when sensory receptors are activated from the external environment.
Normally, bottom up theory is used to protect us from our survival. Meanwhile, top down theory only
occurs when the organism has existing knowledge. Students will process information and construct
information while recalling back their experiences and expectations.

The Gestalt Principles is the theory of visual perception. There are a few laws in gestalt principles.
Laws of good figure, proximity, similarity, continuation, closure and symmetry are the laws and
principles in Gestalt theory.

As a teacher, I can apply this Gestalt Principles in my classroom by using mind map. For instance,
double bubble map that has two circle that are overlapping with one another. Students will write the
similarities of two objects at the overlapping part. This is linked to law of good figure where students
will view this topic as whole and not two different things. Apart from that, as a teacher, I need to be
open-minded in classroom. This is because every student has different perspectives and teachers
cannot look down on students’ perspectives as they have different knowledge and different
background.

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