Session 3: Perception

and Emotion
Dr. Inleusa Basengkham
GESI & MEL Specialist; Consultant; Professional
Interpreter and Teacher
Email: inleusa.oms2012@gmail.com
Phone and WhatsApp: +856-20-5511-7666
Contents and learning objectives

Content: Learning objectives:

 What is perception?  Understand the concepts.
 What is emotion?  Be able to explain the concept by using
personal knowledge and comprehension.
 What is perception?
 Perception is the sensory experience of the
world. It involves both recognizing
environmental stimuli and actions in
response to these stimuli.
 Through the perceptual process, we gain
information about the properties and
elements of the environment that are
critical to our survival. Perception not only
creates our experience of the world around
us; it allows us to act within our
environment.
 Perception includes the five senses; touch,
sight, sound, smell, and taste. It also
includes what is known as proprioception, a
set of senses involving the ability to detect
changes in body positions and movements.
It also involves the cognitive processes
required to process information, such as
recognizing the face of a friend or detecting
a familiar scent.
 Learn more about how we go from
detecting stimuli in the environment to
actually taking action based on that
information.
What does people's perception mean?

People perceive things differently. We choose to select

different aspects of a message to focus our attention
based on what interests us, what is familiar to us, or
what we consider important.
In social psychology, the term person perception refers
to the different mental processes that we use to form
impressions of other people. This includes not just how
we form these impressions, but the different
conclusions we make about other people based upon
our impressions.
 Emotions are defined in various ways depending on
who you ask (Gendron, 2010). One might say that
emotions are biological states that come about as a
result of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Emotions
may also exist on a continuum from pleasure to
displeasure. But emotion theorists largely disagree on
the definition of what an emotion is.

What is emotion?
Nevertheless, most seem to agree that emotions are
functional. For example, they prepare us to respond to
a perceived or real environmental stimulus (e.g., being
chased by a mountain lion or being rejected by a
friend). In this case, we may experience fear and it
causes us to retreat.
Emotional
Wheel
 While many experiments have shown that
people around the world can accurately
recognize basic emotions, such as happiness,
sadness, anger, and fear, other research has
shown that there are differences in the way
people read facial expressions depending on
People show where they are from.

emotion
differently Typically, we learn to express our emotions in
two primary ways: either directly expressing
them to someone else (e.g., in a personal
confrontation), or hiding the feelings and
keeping them to ourselves.
Further study
 https://www.verywellmind.com/what-are-emotions-2795178
 https://www.verywellmind.com/perception-and-the-perceptual-process-2795839
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unWnZvXJH2o
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP3ThMv8p4s
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpNHiR1DIKc
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUafO9dJYlY