What factors influence our perception?

Factors such as our senses, our age, the technology around us, our influences, our standpoints, our education, the people we are surrounded with and the abilities were are given are factors that most definitely shape the perception each and every one of us have. These factors are derived into internal and external factors. Internal factors are those factors that we have inside our conscious and our soul. Examples of internal factors may be our age, our gender, our physiology, our senses, and the education we are taught at a very little age. These factors surely influence the perception we have of the world itself and of everyone and everything that surrounds us. Whereas internal factors are those that belong to our conscious and our soul, external factors are those factors around us that most definitely have a great influence on our perception. Examples of influential external factors are the following, the culture we belong to, the religion we follow, the new and improved technology, the people we are surrounded with, our social status and the place in which we live in. I am personally influenced by internal and external factors that I like and dislike. For example I really enjoy listening to jazz music, sale shopping, traveling, eating vegetables and resting whereas influential external factors that I dislike are the following, going to the dentist, getting bad grades, going to the hospital, getting screamed at and braces. There are factors such as the ones above that we may like or dislike since we have been given a previous background on them that has made us feel the way we feel about them.

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