Perception Refers to

question 193

Multiple Choice

Perception refers to

• A) a person's consistent behaviors or responses to recurring situations.
• B) a learned predisposition to respond to an object or class of objects in a consistently favorable or unfavorable way.
• C) the process by which an individual selects, organizes, and interprets information to create a meaningful picture of the world.
• D) seeing or hearing messages without being aware of them.
• E) those qualities that either attract or repel other members of a person's personal, social, or professional environment.

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Definitions:

Social Anxiety Disorder

A chronic mental health condition where social interactions cause irrational anxiety, fear, self-consciousness, and embarrassment.

Agoraphobia

An anxiety disorder that involves an extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, leaving one's own home, or being in places from which escape might be difficult.

Natural Environment Type Phobia

Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive fear of specific natural environments or situations.

Cortisol Levels

The concentration of cortisol, a hormone produced by the adrenal glands, which increases in response to stress and low blood-glucose concentration.