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Chapter 11
Perception and Thinking
Perception refers to the ability for people to interpret the information that is pro-
vided by the five known senses of vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. Cognition
is our ability to reason about the meaning of this information and apply previous
experience to understand this sensory input. Together, these abilities allow us to
recognize and apply information that is presented to us to move around our world,
solve problems, and communicate with one another.
One of our primary sources of information is visual perception. It has been
shown that humans are better able to reason about very complex problem ...