Perception Definition of Terms

11 selected and grouped stimuli, so that the stimuli can be interpreted meaningfully. Similar to the definition of Altman et al. 1985, George and Jones 2005 : 105 define perception as the process by which individuals select, organize, and interpret the input from their senses vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to give meaning and order to the world around them. According to George and Jones 2005: 105, there are at least three components in the process of forming perception, namely: the perceiver the person who tries to interpret some observation that he or she has just made or the input from his or her sense, the target of perception whatever the perceiver is trying to make sense of, and the last is the situation the context in which perception takes place. From those definitions, it can be concluded that each person has his or her own perception toward something because the factors that influence the perception may be different for each person. “Each person gives his or her own meaning to stimuli; different individuals will “see” the same thing in different ways” Gibson et al., 1985: 60. In this study, perception refers to the way the students see, feel, and think about the use of peer feedback in Microteaching class.

b. The Perceptual Process

As stated previously, each person will see the same thing or object differently. It depends on how they organize the stimuli they have received. There are some aspects in the process of forming a perception, namely receiving stimuli, organizing the stimuli, and translating or interpreting the organized stimuli Gibson, et al., 1985:61. 12 To create perception in our thought, it should be stimulated with stimulus. Perception occurs whenever stimuli comes and activates the sense. Then the data should be selected to be interpreted into meaningful information. The way people interpret information depends on several factors such as the clarity and familiarity of the stimuli, our physical characteristics, our needs and values, knowledge, feeling, and past experience Altman, et al. 1985. After the perception was formed, it will lead people to take response based on their perception. For example, for a student who sees chemist as the easiest subject in his school, he will enjoy to follow the class. While for the student who sees chemist as a difficult subject, she will hate it and have no passion to follow the class. From the example, although the stimuli is the same, the behavior resulted from the perceptual process may be different. In conclusion, perception will lead people to the different attitudes or responses . In this study, the researcher is eager to know students’ perception on peer feedback in Microteaching class. If the students have positive perception toward peer feedback they will show positive attitude toward it and vice versa.