What Is Human Perception To You?

ifanonline

I open this thread to discuss about human perception. What is human perception to you? Perception can be link to human wealth, fashion,education, food, etc...for example;

1. People may perceive owning a Mercedes Benz is a simbol of wealth, someone who is rich. Why does this preception occur? Why don't we associate Proton as a simbol of wealth. Ceratin people perceive that owning a Proton is already considered rich and wealthy. Why do we have to associate perception with certain brands?

2. Fashion Designer wears perceive by many as a simbol of wealth, richness and expensive. Like Gucci, Channel, Prada are perceive by many as a status simbol, a brand that can only be bought by the rich. Why do we perceive this?

To be continued...

fezy

to me, perception is largely dependent on what you earned and how you lead your life.

a person who earns rm100k p.m. may think that tag heuer watch is cheap.
but for those who earned rm1k p.m., TH is unattainable.
whilst those who earned rm4k p.m. thinks that they could save up for it.

then again, those who earned rm4k p.m. who wants to have stylish lifestyle n to be 'better' and way beyond their peers, they are willing to save up or even buy on credit a TH watch.
and there could be ppl who earned rm100k p.m. who wld think a patek phillippe watch or just a TH watch is a waste.

bla bla bla.... sambung la sendiri.
eksimpulannya, persepsi seseorg byk bergantuang pada kemampuan diri dan cara hidup.

contoh bagi seorg pelajar.
pelajar yg bagus sentiase fikir B (75 markah, kan?) tak cukup bagus.
ade pulak pk, dapat 60 markah pun dah cukup bagus, asal lulus.

so, gitulah.

ifanonline

2# fezy

true enough, life is about perception actually...humans are putting standard to all things on earth. Some people will think that product Made in China is of low quality, but something made in Switzerland is fo high quality. People's perception towards Switzerland is better than China, but some chinese product is as good as swiss product.

fezy

but i cant think of a hi-qual prodct from china.
esp after reading abt chinese ppl make fake eggs, milk powder from i dont know what, food fried w plastic.... menakutkan!!

edaladiva

I open this thread to discuss about human perception. What is human perception to you? Perception can be link to human wealth, fashion,education, food, etc...for example;

1. People may perceive ow ...
ifanonline Post at 11-11-2009 05:51 PM

Let us begin with the word perception.
Perceive, assume or the way we see things, not through visually but the the way we interpret things.
Now this basic fundamental is going back to the definition of Paradigm Shift where Thomas Kuhn place those word in his book Scientific Revolution for every breakthrough that takes place.

Perceiving or assuming is only reflecting reality but does not reflecting values. This is the generic social map where every individual view things through their own lens, with the similarity on reality that conclude perception. As a result, the reaction of such perception will just become an evolution without any significant outcome in our normal daily activities, no matter what we perceive, be it fashion industry, wealth, happiness in life, etc.

Now, to change perception requires deep fundamental thoughts on how we "see" things clearly, from an overall perspectives as well as  how others view things. Blend it together all those statistics, view from various angles and select the most appropriate so that we can have a different kind of perception which not only be evolutionary but revolutionary in our action. This is more what we call the Paradigm Shift where at times something click into our mind and we see things differently which we can relate our perception to values instead of reality.

Perception is reflecting habits and attitude. For example, if we see products from China through 80's mentality, our attitude will disallowed us to purchase any so call low quality but with different kind of "seeing" things, in another word,  attitude of the 21st century, we would have no reason not to purchase those product that with the same standard yet so economical.

That is why China is growing, with the similar perception, but different interpretation. Reality change to value.....

ifanonline

5# edaladiva

I believe perception goes back to our fundamental believes and values. We look at things the way we want to look at it, or some values that has been embedded to us since birth/child. Society and religion plays an important role in perception towards the world. We perceive things that goes along with our religious believes, society acceptance, and the knowledge we gain through our lifetime.

For example, perception towards happiness. Some people think happiness is connected with wealth, some with good education, some with children, etc...happiness is subjective and happiness can be in many shapes and form.

If you an add of a designers perfume, they always use super models to be on their advert. What does this say? it says that if you use this perfume, you are like the model, handsome/beautiful, rich, etc...this is the perception advertisers wants to create to consumers to buy their product, whereas even if you buy the perfume, you will just be another person on the street.

fezy

agree w both of you.

but i beg to differ on the economic growth of china.
true they were the sleeping giant. n they have now awakened.
but their economic growth is largely due to foreign investments considering that the chinese offer cheap labour.
it is true that most established brands do invest n open their manufacturing plant in china. but that doesnt mean the chinese on their own manufacture good products. when they work at those manufacturing plants of the establsihed companies, they have to adhere to the standard of production. if they don't, "see you on the street".
and then again, the chinse are known for their 'copycat' nature. thus, some manufacturers now are thinking twice of venture n set-up their manufacturing plant there, especially those companies that value their 'trade secrets' highly.

tapi yang paling penting, barangan china tanpa mengharapkan pasaran luar, peniaga2 mereka yang betul2 terlibat dalam bidang niaga, tetap boleh kaya sebab 1/3 penduduk bumi duduk kat negara diorg.

ok... back to perception. like both of you said, depends on one's own interpretation of things which is embedded by his/her values:- moral/religion/upbringing/social/bla bla bla (so, i dont actually agree if we were to say that perception is solely about reality and not about values).

ZamZamAlaKazam

...to perceive is comprehension or apprehension with the mind and/or senses.  Cumulative experiences and learnings, cultural input, and personal interpretation shape one's perception.

I don't think this thread is about the psychology of perception, but rather the frivolous brand positioning.  However, the perceptual threshold still holds.

Interestingly, most of the metaphors for comprehension are sight related, ie "I see...", "...overview...","...hindsight..." as opposed "I hear..." which is common but not as arresting as the visual one.  When we see something, our understanding of it is shaped by our past experiences.  Thus, if one were splash hot coffee at McD, one would not associate eating there as pleasurable experience ( though one had actually sued them before and won which obviously is nice... ).  

Mind/Experiences + Senses + Surrounding = Perception.

Giving an LV handbag to an aborigine who has no need for it renders the exercise as pointless.  The aborigine has no concept of its brand, no idea of its usage maybe, and definitely no need for it in the locality.

Showing off a Porsche to a simple folk won't achieve the desired result.  Teach the folk about finer things in live, the perception would change accordingly.

Perception thus can be manipulated to serve the desired outcome.  Japan made products were perceived as inferior to the western made as recent as the 80s.  The perceived might look different after education, appreciation and putting it in favorable environment.

To be seen is to have made it... Now it, under the circumstances, makes sense.

redsinner

perception...very interesting view here.

perception in this discussion obviously pertains to perception of the vision. perhaps we forgot that we have other senses as well, such as smell, touch, taste, sound and the utmost important is our sixth sense - intuition.

perhaps the perception of the vision is the most deceiving of all. people get tricked of what they see, not realizing the truth behind it.
also perception means the interpretation of things that we SEE. how about our feeling and other senses to the particular brand?

some people liked LV, some liked 9West, some liked Coach. but is there any right/wrong brands? no due to perception. but how about 'non-brand' items? are these items non-worthy in the market? obviously no because some people prefer these items over the other expensive counterparts.

so how do we define perception of brands? surveys? they usually survey particular number of people within their targeted audience. surveys sometimes dont show much but sometimes do give us an inkling about wat the public likes.

hence perception is not only vision-related issues but also to be related to other senses.

just my 2 cents to u tuan rumah