This essay will attempt to give an accurate explanation of what perception actually is.
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This essay will attempt to give an accurate explanation of what perception actually is. It will look at the process of perception and how the process of stimulus, attention (selective perception), organisation, interpretation and judgments of other people. The essay will also explore how we make justified or unjustified inferences about others based on our perceptions. In everyday life, complicated social relationships are developed between human beings. This process of developing new relationships begins from the day we are born and continues throughout our lives. As a result of this process we learn how to behave in certain social situation. Through time we become conscious of ourselves enabling us to judge the outcome of our appearance and behaviour on others. Social psychology is an area of study which explores how people behave in groups, institutions and society as a whole. It also attempts to explain and predict human behaviour in terms...

