What is the difference between perception and perspective?

Perception is how you understand things, people, events, etc, and Perspective is how you choose to look at them. perspective is how someone sees it. perception is like understanding Perspective is an evaluation or analysis of something. It takes into account a belief system as well as what is taken in by the senses. Perception is what you get from your five senses, touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste. You may perceive something to look like food and taste like food, but your perspective, based on past experiences, may tell you it is closer to cardboard than food. Do you see the difference? ----- oo --Perspective is how things appear, the reality of things in a way. You often hear about people saying to put things into perspective and by that they are saying to look at the issue/thing from a realistic point of view. Perception is more personal and is how you see the issue/thing. You might look at a drawing and see it one way but someone else look at the same drawing and see it totally different. We know that people who suffer certain mental conditions "see" or perceive all kinds of threats and "dark" imagery in the most ordinary of objects simply because their mind doesn't function properly when processing and interpreting the images it receives. Our eyes can adjust an make things seem different to the actual reality and optical illusions are the obvious example. The reality is that all the circles in the design are the same size but the way they are placed in the design (perspective) causes us to see (perceive) some of the circles as being bigger or smaller than the others. If you have ever used a normal camera that doesn't have zoom ability you will know how you take a picture of something that seems really close and big but its a lot smaller and further away in the pic.... well that because the cameras perspective (view/reality) and your perception (interpretion of that view) cause you and the camera to see the same thing differently. Your brain makes "allowances" for things and kind of mentally "airbrushes" the images to make them SEEM clearer and look better than they really are.

1...Your perception of something is the way that you think about it or the impression you have of it. 2...Someone who has perception realizes or notices things that are not obvious. 3...Perception is the recognition of things using your senses, especially the sense of sight.

1...A particular perspective is a particular way of thinking about something, especially one that is influenced by your beliefs or experiences. If you get something in perspective, you judge its real importance by considering it in relation to everything else.

2...Perspective is the art of making some objects or people in a picture look further away than others. --- oo --Perception is being able to understand or see something. Perspective is the view or angle you have on it. "Johnnie perceived the large field ahead of him. From where he stood, the perspective was wide and flat." "The crowd perceived the sense of danger. Their perspective was one of aggression." "The lawyer perceived his client was in trouble, since her perspective of the case was mistaken."

PERSPECTIVE: That which is or can be seen. A view or vista. A mental view or outlook. The appearance of objects in depth as perceived by normal binocular vision. PERCEPTION: The condition of being aware. The process, act, or faculty of perceiving. The effect or product of perceiving. Your perception can be improved by your perspective.

d_r_siva answered 5 years ago World of the Body: perception Our senses probe the external world, and they also tell us about ourselves as they monitor the positions of our limbs and the balance of our bodies. Through pain they signal injury and illness.

How we experience and know about external objects is a question that was discussed by the Greek philosophers and has been ever since. Planned experiments on perception, in the spirit of the physical sciences, were hardly attempted before the mid nineteenth century. They have revealed a surprising complexity of physiological and cognitive (knowledge-based) processes, of which we are normally unaware, though many can be demonstrated simply and dramatically, especially through the phenomena of illusions.

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: perception

Process of registering sensory stimuli as meaningful experience. The differences between sensation and perception have varied according to how the terms are defined. A common distinction is that sensations are simple sensory experiences, while percepts are complex constructions of simple elements joined through association. Another is that perception is more subject to the influence of learning. Though hearing, smell, touch, and taste perceptions have all been explored, vision has received the most attention. Structuralist researchers such as Edward Bradford Titchener focused on the constituent elements of visual perceptions, whereas Gestalt psychology has stressed the need to examine organized wholes, believing humans are disposed to identifying patterns.

Columbia Encyclopedia: perception, in psychology, mental organization and interpretation of sensory information The Gestalt psychologists studied extensively the ways in which people organize and select from the vast array of stimuli that are presented to them, concentrating particularly on visual stimuli. Perception is influenced by a variety of factors, including the intensity and physical dimensions of the stimulus; such activities of the sense organs as effects of preceding stimulation; the subject's past experience; attention factors such as readiness to respond to a stimulus; and motivation and emotional state of the subject.

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: perspective

Depiction of three-dimensional objects and spatial relationships on a two-dimensional plane. In Western art, illusions of volume and space are generally created by use of the linear perspective system, based on the observation that objects appear to shrink and parallel lines to converge at an infinitely distant vanishing point as they recede in space from the viewer. The vanishing point may have been known to

the Greeks and Romans but had been lost until Filippo Brunelleschi rediscovered the principles of linear or "mathematical" perspective early in the 15th century.

Columbia Encyclopedia: perspective, in art, any method employed to represent three-dimensional space on a flat surface or in relief sculpture. Although many periods in art showed some progressive diminution of objects seen in depth, linear perspective, in the modern sense, was probably first formulated in 15th-century Florence by the architects Brunelleschi and Alberti. Brunelleschi designed (c.1420) two panels depicting architectural views of Florence, in which he constructed a mathematically proportioned system of perspective.

Fine Arts Dictionary: perspective

In drawing or painting, a way of portraying three dimensions on a flat, two-dimensional surface by suggesting depth or distance.