Perceptual Process and Barriers

Perception is the evolution of understanding and systematizing awareness that generates significant knowledge.  Sensation relates to instant, reasonable, and crude outcomes of one’s senses including hearing with the ears, seeing with the eyes, smelling with the nose, and touch.  Perception exemplifies ultimate comprehensive knowledge of awareness through senses.  Sensation and perception in application align, as a result of the progression.  Another way to understand the concept is that perception portrays a method, and decodes sensory prompts into well thought-out knowledge.

Thinking

A job of the brain includes contemplation.  The brain has complexities scientists do not understand; however basic understanding exists.  The brain is the hub of the body.  The brain regulates the heart without intentional movement, the brain compensates hormone over or under production.  The brain works successfully when eating a balanced diet, functions without stimulants that alter brain chemistry, for instance using illicit drugs, and sleeping optimally eight hours a night  (Kirby, Goodpaster, 2007).  For the brain to reach full potential, as a thinking machine needs intellectual stimulation, just as the body needs exercise, so does the brain or the body becomes flabby, the brain slows down.

One cannot overlook language as a part of the process according Kirby and Goodpaster (2007) without considering, “sensing, feeling, remembering, creating, organizing, reason, evaluating, deciding, persuading, and acting” (Chapter 5, University of Phoenix, para 1).  Thinking is not a process understood in totality.

The brain has an interesting component that supports the perception process, the memory.  Universally known is short and long-term memory.  Memory never takes a break.  Memory has the propensity to distort itself, no matter the age.  Memory loss comes in many forms of distortion.  Sometimes suppressed memories result from molestation.  Some memories do not attach to the known.  Physical ailments also influence forgetfulness because the brain is not at peak performance, as the body distracts the memory, and thinking process.  The medium description here is an illustration according to Kirby and Goodpaster (2007),

Language is the landscape of our mind; it is the mountains and forests as well as the cities and roads.  It both carries the content and the structures the form.  We think with it.  Language works intimately with all aspects of our thinking (Chapter 5, University of Phoenix, para 1).

Without language communication cannot occur at any level.  The worlds not exist, for example as humans, will lack the ability to including nonverbal cues.  The universe without thought to influence creates a race of stupid beings that will die off by a lack of understanding how to procreate, or even understand the meaning of, Ron White the comedian said it best, “You can’t fix stupid” (White, n. d.)

The English language is in a constant state of evolution.  The English language has words descriptive of other definitions, for example ‘phat’ is not the same of ‘fat’ phat implies beautiful, fat means what it is, fat, which is the opposite meaning of phat.

False Perception

The first  position post Associates degree, entailed cleaning up the master patient index for a hospital prior to electronic record implementation.  The responsibility was assessing demographical information for duplication.  The process included verifying name, address, insurance, and if any appeared as duplicates required merging the two charts into one, and delete out the incorrect duplicate.  At one point two charts appeared as potential duplicate with separate charts including the same name, almost the same birth date, same locale, but different street addresses, retrieving the charts was the next step.  The patients both had cardiac history and appeared to be a duplicate chart.  Apparently incorrectly, the charts became one and deleted out of the master patient index.  The patient with the merged chart showed up in the emergency room with a heart attack, and the record did not exist. The patient survived.  It the first real lesson with work ethics.

Personal Perceptional Process

Assuming the merged charts into one was the correct identification of the two charts as the same person was a huge error in judgment.  The assumption was the information almost matched but did not follow the instructions adhering to the boss’s advice of if questionable leave it as is.  After personal assessment, the charts became one, and deleted out of the hospital main frame.  The boss was not an easy person to ask questions.  The man talked down with a tone of disrespect.  Being too intimidated to query, led to using poor judgment.  The difference perceived was the boss’s displeasure and used nonverbal to support his annoyance.  The boss was intimidating the way he carried himself.  The tone always conveyed dissatisfaction.  The moral of the story is never assuming anything.  Hindsight of the magnitude is shocking to think the potential damage that could have occurred.  As a personal resolve, never to cower again, no one is intimidating, even in the face of adversity.  Being young and naive is the lesson learned by revisiting this awful experience.

Influencing Perceptual Blocks

A personal barrier of is expecting others to live up to high standards, anything less is unacceptable.  This is a form of control.  I have a tendency to over think or research to understand a topic to the point of overload and unable to zero in on the correct information.  Understanding dialect other than English is difficult but at the same time understanding dialect easier than others.  This makes adoption of the opinion hard to do.  The disastrous chart merging took years to understand the enormity of the error fear still plays a key role protecting health information of patients.  Asking questions rather than assume eliminates mistakes.  Realization after the incident the need for greater confidence and assertiveness decreased authoritative fear.  

Conclusion

Perception is uniquely individual.  No one shares the same life views identically.  Any individual and not fully distinguish all effects consistently.  The perception process is selection, organization, and interpretation.  First selection occurs as a result of stimuli   we concentrate through the senses.  Organization assembles stimuli for understanding the stimuli.  Interpretation occurs after understanding the stimuli.  Interpretations include skewed, founded on value, wants, faith, practice, prospect, participation, and others.  

References

Kirby, G., & Goodpaster, J. (2007).  Thinking: an interdisciplinary approach to critical and creative thought.  [University of Phoenix Custom Edition e-Text].  Prentice Hall.  Retrieved from, PHL/251 Critical Thinking website.

White, R. (n. d.).  Ron white - stupid is forever.  Video Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gxKStPXyn8