Question

help! im on a timed quiz and this is 9th grade world geography!!


What is the difference between perception and perspective?

A. Perception and perspective are the same thing.

B. Perception is the size of a geographic landform; perspective is a geographic landform's impact on the Earth.

C. Perception is study of the ocean's effect on land formation; perspective is the study of climate change.

D. Perception is how you perceive and understand the world; perspective is the way you look at something.

Answer 1

D)

Perspective is how things appear, the reality of things in a way. You often hear about people saying to put things into perspective and by that they are saying to look at the issue/thing from a realistic point of view.
Perception is more personal and is how you see the issue/thing. You might look at a drawing and see it one way but someone else look at the same drawing and see it totally different. We know that people who suffer certain mental conditions "see" or perceive all kinds of threats and "dark" imagery in the most ordinary of objects simply because their mind doesn't function properly when processing and interpreting the images it receives.

Our eyes can adjust an make things seem different to the actual reality and optical illusions are the obvious example. The reality is that all the circles in the design are the same size but the way they are placed in the design (perspective) causes us to see (perceive) some of the circles as being bigger or smaller than the others.

If you have ever used a normal camera that doesn't have zoom ability you will know how you take a picture of something that seems really close and big but its a lot smaller and further away in the pic.... well that because the cameras perspective (view/reality) and your perception (interpretion of that view) cause you and the camera to see the same thing differently. Your brain makes "allowances" for things and kind of mentally "airbrushes" the images to make them SEEM clearer and look better than they really are.

Answer 2

yep i agree with @ThatOnePerson

Answer 3

ok, that really help, thanks you!!