Educational psychology

Learning through perception

What is perception
• Perception is the sensory experience of the world
• It involves both recognizing environment stimuli and actions in
response to these stimuli
• Through perceptual process, we gain information about the
properties and elements of the environment
• Perception not only creates the world around us, it allows to act
within our environment
What is perception
• Perception includes five senses
• Touch, sound, smell
• Perception involves the cognitive processes required to process
information
• Such as recognizing the face of a friend or detecting a familiar event
Types of perception
• Vision
• Touch
• Sound
• Smell
• These are the senses that allows us to perceive things
• The perceptual process allows you to experience the world around
you and interact with the environment and interact with it in the ways
that are both appropriate and meaningful
Purified perception
• Take a moment to think all of the things you perceive on daily basis.
At any given moment, you might see familiar objects in your
environment
• Feel the touch of objects
• Smell the aroma of room and home cooked meal
• Sound of music in your next door neighbor apartment
• Perception allows you to interact with people and objects around you
Learning through perception
• Learning through sensory experiences ( touch, smell and sound)
• Sensory experiences helps the children to focus and relax
• Try listening to relaxing music or other calming sounds in the classroom
• Spy or create mind jars example put items with strong, familiar smells
• Smell of perfume, any food item or use different flowers
• To focus them on the sense of touch ask the children to close their eyes
• Give them a cotton ball or sponge and ask them what they are holding
• Put some items on the table like- water, sand and ice
• Ask them to touch those items
• You can also encourage imaginative play
• Clay making or playing with sand
Learning through vision
• Vision helps in developing imaginations
• Show pictures and movies in the classroom so that children will
develop some knowledge about the world
• Show the pictures of
• Oceans, trees
• Fish animals and plants
• After showing these pictures ask them to write up a story about these
things
Ways to improve perception
• Pay attention- perception requires you to attend the world around you
• This might include anything that can be seen, touched, smelled, or heard
• It might also involve the movement of arms and legs
• Changes in the position of the body
• Make meaning of what you perceive- The recognition stage make sense of
the world around you by. By placing the objects in meaningful categories,
you are able to understand and react properly
• Take action- This could involve variety of actions
• Such as turning away to look at something else