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students have good impression toward the use of songs listening class, it is expected that they will have good perception on it.
According to Kreitner and Kinicky 1992, “perception is a mental and cognitive process that enables us to interpret and understand our surroundings”
p.26. Huffman and Vernoy 1997: 79 state “the perception is the process of selecting,
organizing and
interpreting sensory data
into usable
mental representations of the world.” From their statements, it can be concluded that
perception is a process to give opinion about surrounding situation. In other
words, individuals’ perception can be different from one to another because the process of forming perception occurred individually.
Moreover, perception can be seen from the behavioral response on the situation. Leontive 1981: 31 states that perception can be formed if someone is
aware of experiencing an event. After the perception is formed, the information are then organized and interpreted as behavioral response to the stimuli.
According to Warga 1983: 210 perceptions are influenced by numbers of factors such as, stereotyping, self-concept, situation, individual needs and values, emotion
and past experiences. It means that people cannot immediately give opinions on something, they have to experience or to see it by themselves so they will be able
to give their own opinion based on that. Every person will have different
perceptions since the forming factors are also different in every individual. However, the perception is really strong if they experience it by themselves so
they can determine their own behavioral response.
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