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What is Perception

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Process of organizing and interpreting any information or stimulus received by a living being, with the required intelligence to do so, in the perspectives of all the background knowledge already stored in the specific being’s cognitive system.
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Usage of the Basic Facebook Features as Befitting Marketing Tools
Fahima Khanam (Business Administration, BSMR Aviation and Aerospace University, Bangladesh), Muhammad Omar Al-Zadid (Carson College of Business, Washington State University, USA), and Mahmud Ullah (Department of Marketing, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9220-5.ch174
Abstract
Among all of the existing social media platforms, Facebook has been playing the most dominant role right from its inception, specially over the last one decade or so. It has become an integral and inevitable part of human lives in almost every single country all around the world. Marketers have taken advantages of this ever-growing popularity with an enormous client base to market their products and services using this unique and vast social media platform. Consequently, doing research on effectiveness, importance, and utilities of Facebook, the basic Facebook features to be more specific, as befitting marketing tools has become an obvious option and opportunity. This article attempts to find the impact of different technological, visual, content, usage, etc. aspects of Facebook illustrated by some universally accepted Facebook or SNS terminologies or glossaries on the perception of the businesspeople and customers about Facebook as an online shopping platform, and on the ultimate purchase intention of the customers using this platform.
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Investigation of Social Media Sharing Attitudes and Practices of Individuals With Different Mental Structures in COVID-19 Outbreak Process
Psychology and cognitive sciences that deal with the functioning of the mind and intelligence are called the acquisition, interpretation, selection and arrangement of sensory information. In short, it can be defined as the awareness and perception of something by directing attention to that thing.
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Leadership Shifts: Perceptions and Consequences, In-Person, or Cyber
The method or consequence of becoming cognizant of relationships, items, and events by the senses, which includes emotional intelligence, recognition, observation, and differentiation.
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Collaborative Writing in E-Learning Environments
Act of becoming aware of other participants’ work within a collaborative environment.
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Teleworking: The “New Normal” in Response to a Pandemic
Perception is the way in which someone understands or interprets something.
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Main Generators of the Electronic Word-of-Mouth in the Case of Hotels
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Developing Effective Teacher-Student Relationships in International Schools in China
“Making meaning about others based on one’s own subjective social and cultural perspectives” ( Warren, 2015 , p. 155).
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Nollywood Video Films and the Nigerian Image Crisis: A Study of Ten Films
Understanding or interpretation assigned to phenomena by an individual, group or society.
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Family Business Firms' Branding: Managing Strategic Attributes That Influence Millennial Consumer Behavior
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Market and Entrepreneurial Orientation Strategies in the Wood Furniture Industry in Mexico
A process made by the consumer in which they discover, analyze and interpret information to create meaning or knowledge. AU51: Reference appears to be out of alphabetical order. Please check
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Empowering African American Adolescent Males through Engaging Literacy Tasks
“A process which involves the recognition and interpretation of stimuli which register on our senses” ( Rookes & Willson, 2000 , p. 1).
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Academicians Quality of Work Life and Its Influence on Value of Education
It is referred as the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
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Opportunities Associated With Open Access Initiatives: Perspectives of Research Students From Selected Universities in Nigeria
This is defined as the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. It is the way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted. Perception is the organisation, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment.
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Exploring the Role of Organizational Justice in the Modern Workplace
The process by which people translate the sensory impressions into the coherent view of the world around them.
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Can Social Media Be a Transformative Tool for Building a Better Society?: The Case of YouTube Videos on Consumer Sustainability Perception
Perception is a cognitive process in which individuals actively participate by engaging in the actions of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory stimuli.
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Cognition and Learning
Is the foundation of learning. It is the process whereby an individual becomes aware of his environment. It is a selective process and an individual style of perception is unique to such individual’s previous experience, attitude, knowledge and interest.
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The Effects of Mistreating Management Variability on Work Attitudes and Behaviors
1. The process of perceiving something with the senses: the perception of a faint sound 2. An instance of this: sense perceptions. a. The process or state of being aware of something: the perception of time. b. The capacity for such insight or knowledge: theories of how to enhance human perception. c. An insight or point of knowledge: The article is full of astute perceptions. 3. An interpretation or impression; an opinion or belief: doctors working to change the public perception of certain diseases.
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New Technologies Shaping Learning?: AR Learning Experiences and Integration Model
Perception is an ability to be aware of something through senses. From psychological viewpoint, it includes processes, including memory, of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information. It involves signals that go through nervous system.
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Can Online Education Be the Answer?: Exploring Transformational Learning in Two Online Teacher Education Courses
Perception is assumptions, attitudes, and how we interpret events around us. Our perceptions are constructed, developed and changed throughout our lives.
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Multirobot Team Work with Benevolent Characters: The Roles of Emotions
It is the subsystem of control structure of an agent through which it can gather and understand the information from working environment.
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The Didactic in Initial Literacy: Between the Perception and Representation
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Thin Screen: The Creation of Depth Perception in Desktop Virtual Reality in Alignment with Human Visual Perception
The faculty of gaining sensory information from the environment, such as through the sensory organs related to sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing
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Uses of Virtual Reality (VR) for Chronic Pain
The conscious result of the brain’s interpretation of sensory information.
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Use of STEM Intervention Teaching Scenarios to Investigate Students' Attitudes Toward STEM Professions and Their Self-Evaluation of STEM Subjects
The process by which a person combine knowledge and idea has gained as a result of having an experience in relation to a topic.
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Ethical Challenges: The Influence Organizational and Personal Values Have on Perceptions of Misconduct and the Factors of Whistleblowing
The act of capturing or understanding by the senses or the mind thoughts that acknowledge and recognize moral qualities ( Stein & Urdang, 1971 ).
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The Evaluation of the Service and Its Impact on Brand Value: The Case of Language Schools in Guayaquil
It is how the brain detects the environment through the senses forming criteria about its reality.
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Attention Perception and Social Cognition: Bridging the Gap Between the Physical and Perceived
The identification, organization, and interpretation of information received through senses.
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LearnEasy-Android Application as a Technological Intervention for Children With Dyslexia
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Is the COVID-19 Pandemic Shifting the Social-Business Paradigm?
Consumers' perception is how consumers conceive the market, the actors involved, and the products they offer. For this reason, the company needs to ensure that consumers perceive all the solidarity strategies they carry out so that they associate these measures with their products. Thus, consumers will feel more inclined to consume their products.
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What Are Students Saying About AI as an Academic Tool
Perception encompasses the way students receive, process, and understand knowledge, influenced by their prior experiences, beliefs, attitudes, and cognitive abilities (Chai et al., 2023). In this chapter, this term refers to how students engage with AI-powered tools to construct their understanding of academic content.
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Random Processes and Visual Perception: Stochastic Art
Perception is the ability to understand external stimuli. Visual perception is the ability to detect light and interpret it as the perception known as sight or vision. Vision has a specific sensory system, the visual system. Because what people see is not simply a translation of retinal stimuli, it is the object of constantly evolving studies in the field of neuroscience.
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Turning Weakness into Strength: How to Learn From an IT Security Incident
Perception and identification are important concepts in the decision-making process for information security incident management. Heuer (1999) described a process of intelligence analysis in which the analyst, through self-awareness, removes his or her worldviews and biases from the assessment of situations. The perception and identification of information security incidents leads to subsequent actions. The perception and identification of events is a central concept of this the phenomenological framework.
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Transition to Blended Learning in a Limited Resource Setting: Administrators' and Teachers' Perceptions
Refers to the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. It also indicates how something is regarded, understood, or interpreted. It also can be defined as a skill by which we consider or evaluate something. It influences our decision-making and leads us to problem-solving.
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Fake News?: Critical Thinking Through the Lens of Social Intuition Theory
A cognitive process during information processing and encoding from sensory register to working memory. It is a subjective experience as all stimuli are interpreted by individuals according to their previous knowledge, experience, beliefs, worldviews, and expectations.
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Mobile Technologies Course Design: The Use of ICT Skills, Attitudes, and Self-Efficacy in EFL Instructors
Views or opinions stemming from experience and external factors acting on the individual.
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E-Assessment in Portuguese Higher Education: Framework and Perceptions of Teachers and Students.
The organization, identification, and interpretation of the information received by the senses aiming at the representation and understanding of this information or the environment. The perceptions inform about the way people perceive, evaluate, and act in relation to the phenomenon researched.
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Consciousness in General
One of the brain behaviors that will happen in the third stage for understanding.
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Healing Space in High-Density Urban Contexts: Case Studies and Design Strategies
Is usually defined as a process of acquiring understanding or awareness of sensory information from the natural or built environments; the process acts as an intervention or mediation between the physical features of the environment and human behaviors.
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Uses of Virtual Reality (VR) for Chronic Pain
The conscious result of the brain’s interpretation of sensory information.
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Counter-Hacking the Subconscious Mind: Antidote for Faulty Human Perceptions From the Media Sphere
The frame of reference (neurophysiological processes based on historic and current individual thoughts and emotions) used to understand and interpret information coming through the senses from external stimuli. The immense data-capturing capacity of the subconscious mind, combined with its permanent interaction with the conscious mind, plays a crucial role in the process of perception.
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Metaphors in Business Applications: Modelling Subjectivity Through Emotions for Metaphor Comprehension
A psychological process to interpret sensory stimuli such as visual, auditory, or gustatory on the basis of one’s past experiences.
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Effect of Mobile Phone SMS on M-Health: An Analysis of Consumer Perceptions
It is a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment or any objects.
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The Use of Digital Devices in Marketing Library Products in an Inclusively Engaged Academic Library
A set of people’s beliefs, feelings and opinions about a phenomenon which normally influenced by environments, attitudes, previous experiences and cognitive domains. In this study context, perception is an understanding of sensations experienced which necessitate librarians to market library products and services.
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Value-Based Leadership and Personality Type: The Influence on Organizational Change
The act of capturing or understanding by the senses or the mind thoughts that acknowledge and recognize moral qualities ( Stein & Urdang 1971 ).
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New Perspectives on Public Diplomacy
Belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how things seem: the act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind.
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EFL Students' Perceptions and Practices Regarding Online Language Learning: A Case in Vietnam
A belief or opinion is often held by many people and based on how things seem.
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The Place of Virtual Reality in E-Retail: Viable Shopping Environment or Just a Game
Perception in its classic sensory definition makes it possible to convey a mode of representation of the environment and of knowledge of it with sensory receptors.
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Pedagogical Proposals for the Sensory and Motor Stimulation of Children From 0 to 2 Years Old: Practical Advice About the Reality of the Classroom
Interpretation and association of the sensations through the relation and comparison of previous sensations, affective elements, and new sensations.
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An Evaluation of a Listening Comprehension Program
The recognition and understanding of events, objects, and stimuli through the use of senses (sight, hearing, touch, etc).
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Organizational Culture and Ethics: The Influence Organizational and Personal Values Have on Perceptions of Misconduct and the Factors of Whistleblowing
The act of capturing or understanding by the senses or the mind thoughts that acknowledge and recognize moral qualities ( Stein & Urdang 1971 ).
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Commercial Websites: A Focus on the Essential
The act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or the mind.
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Random Processes and Visual Perception: Stochastic Art
Perception is the ability to understand external stimuli. Visual perception is the ability to detect light and interpret it as the perception known as sight or vision. Vision has a specific sensory system, the visual system. Because what people see is not simply a translation of retinal stimuli, it is the object of constantly evolving studies in the field of neuroscience.
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