People make decisions everyday, both consciously and subconsciously, based on knowledge, experience, feelings, and emotions. A decision are not necessarily the product of thinking but is influenced by ones' own perceptions. What is perception? The Encyclopedia Britannica defines perception as "the process whereby sensory stimulation is translated into organized experience." Because perceptions fundamental basis is from sensory stimulation, it includes one's own emotions, judgments', and feelings, which can add or subtract information from what is truly present.
Based on the definition of perception, there is a complete process takes place before we can perceive something, which this author defines the process as how we react to our environment. How one reacts to a given stimuli is part from training, part from how one was raised, and part from previous experiences. Just like a computer, our brain takes input, processes and interprets the data, organizes the data, stores the......
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