Future Researchers Research Benefits

9 change p. 16. Vernon 1982 explains that change and variation of stimuli are essential to increase an efficiency of perception and a cognitive process. It has been found that people are conscious about something new, something outside there and different from general. In short, perception can be defined as the way people think of something that is different from the surroundings. In order to have perception, based on the explanation which is previously stated, people are affected by their interests and their motives. Thus, every person actually has his or her own perception depends on the benefits that he or she gets from it. It is difficult to decide whether the perception is right or wrong. It means that people have their rights to have their perceptions as long as the perception has the facts that can be proved. Altman 1985 describes perception as the way stimuli are selected and grouped by a person so that they can be meaningfully interpreted p. 85. Perception is a person‟s view of reality. The stimuli that people get will become their interpretations of the things that they thought. Interpretation becomes the perception of the people. The way perception described shows that the stimuli which are influenced the people‟s interpretation have an important role in building the perception itself. Therefore, knowing what kinds of stimuli from someone‟s perception is the best way to decide in what side his or her interpretation is. According to Huffman 2000, perception refers to the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting data into useful representations of the world p. 107. The researcher uses these theories of perc eption because students‟ perception is being influenced by their motivations and stimuli in creating a video project. 10

b. Perceptual Process

Based on Altman 1985, there are several factors that influence per son‟s perception. The four important factors are selection of stimuli, organization of stimuli, the situation, and the person‟s self-concept. Those four factors are very important to be known in order to see what kinds of perceptions that someone has p. 86. The first factor in perceptual process is selection of the stimuli. Selection is one of reasons why people perceive things differently. Each person selects specific cues and filters out the others. The second perceptual process is organization of stimuli. After the information has undergone the screening process, it must be arranged to become meaningful. The third perceptual process is the situation. Situation as well as someone past experiences affects what the person perceives. Perceiving a situation accurately is also related to how well a person adjusts his or her behavior to the situations. The fourth perceptual process is self-concept. Self-concept is the way people feel about and perceive themselves. The way people see themselves affects their perception of the world around them. Altman 1985 figures the perceptual process as in this picture below: Figure 2.1 Perceptual Process Source: Altman, 1985, p. 85