Learned about Perception and Attention today. Relating it to the real life... It explains how we can easily detect someone that's special to us in the crowd and take his/her presence as fate. ^^
Well, there are 5 functions of perceptual system: Attention, Localization, Recognition, Abstraction, Constancy.
1. Attention: Process of screening incoming stimuli
We meet up with many people everyday. (Attention: Process of screening incoming stimuli) We tend to pay more attention to people that is special to us while less on the passer-by. (Selective attention : Attending to some stimuli while ignoring others) As we meet up with the special ones, we will put our eyes on the person more. even stare at the person longer than a passer-by. (Eye fixation : A brief period which the eyes are relatively stationary.)
2. Localization : Process determining where the object is
As we look at the special ones to us, we'll see the person clearer and other people in his surrounding become more blur as background. (Figure-Ground Relationship: Figure=object; surrounding:background) Thus, we are able to detect easily the location of the person even he/she is surrounding by lots of people.
3. Recognition : Binding together various features associated with an object
We would bind the features on the person, such as a tall and fit figure, tall nose bridge, pretty eyes etc. If we failed to recognized the person's face, it's called prosopagnosis (Prosopagnosis : Selective inability to recognize faces, although other visual objects may be correctly identified)
4. Abstraction : Process converting the raw sensory information acquired by sensory information acquired by the sense organs into abstract categories that are pre-stored in memory
We would make an abstract 'him/her' into our mind, a brief figure of him/her. The one which appears in our mind when we are thinking of the special ones.
5. Constancy: Brain's ability to maintain a perception of the underlying physical characteristics of an object despite changes in sensory manifestation.
No matter he/she is surrounded by people less/more outstanding than him/her, he/she is still outstanding to you. He/she is who he/she is.
Sometimes, our defense mechanism will also be activated when we meet the special ones to us. The person will look nearly perfect in our eyes. (Idealization : Defense mechanism in which a person conciously or usually unconsiously overestimates an attribute or admirable qualities of another and the underestimation of their limitations)
May everyone of us can meet up the special one who is the right one for us... ^^
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