Perception is referring to a process that makes sensory patterns meaningful. It is a
perception that makes these words meaningful, rather than just a string of visual patterns. To
make this happen, perception draws heavily on memory, motivation, emotion, and other
psychological processes (Foley et al., 2009). Perception is a process of selecting, organizing and
interpreting sensations into a meaningful whole. In the past, methods of studying stimuli and
measuring responses to them were restricted to examining the five senses. Today, however, the
view that perception uses merely sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch to comprehend the
environment is inadequate. Although the senses do play a major role in our comprehension of an
event, our interpretation of a sensation may lead to false perceptions. Perception is highly
subjective and therefore easily distorted (Hanna, 2013). Our cognitive apparatus was created and
formed by a long evolutionary influence of external environment which is apparent in its
structure and abilities; we learn to extract precisely the information which is necessary for our
survival (Gibson, 19