Editing Perception (section)

=== Saks and John's three components to perception ===
According to Alan Saks and Gary Johns, there are three components to perception:<ref>Sincero, Sarah Mae. 2013. "Perception." ''Explorable.'' Retrieved 8 March 2020 (https://explorable.com/perception).</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=March 2024}}

# '''The Perceiver''': a person whose awareness is focused on the stimulus, and thus begins to perceive it. There are many factors that may influence the perceptions of the perceiver, while the three major ones include (1) [[Motivation|motivational state]], (2) [[emotional state]], and (3) [[experience]]. All of these factors, especially the first two, greatly contribute to how the person perceives a situation. Oftentimes, the perceiver may employ what is called a "perceptual defense", where the person will only see what they want to see.
# '''The Target''': the ''object'' of perception; something or someone who is being perceived. The amount of information gathered by the sensory organs of the perceiver affects the interpretation and understanding about the target.
# '''The Situation''': the ''environmental'' factors, timing, and degree of stimulation that affect the process of perception. These factors may render a single stimulus to be left as merely a stimulus, not a percept that is subject for brain interpretation.

==== Multistable perception ====
Stimuli are not necessarily translated into a percept and rarely does a single stimulus translate into a percept. An ambiguous stimulus may sometimes be transduced into one or more percepts, experienced randomly, one at a time, in a process termed ''[[multistable perception]]''. The same stimuli, or absence of them, may result in different percepts depending on subject's culture and previous experiences.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Eliot R. |last2=Zárate |first2=Michael A. |date=1992 |title=Exemplar-based model of social judgment. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0033-295x.99.1.3 |journal=Psychological Review |volume=99 |issue=1 |pages=3–21 |doi=10.1037/0033-295x.99.1.3 |issn=0033-295X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Ambiguous figures demonstrate that a single stimulus can result in more than one percept. For example, the [[Rubin vase]] can be interpreted either as a vase or as two faces. The percept can bind sensations from multiple senses into a whole. A picture of a talking person on a television screen, for example, is bound to the sound of speech from speakers to form a percept of a talking person.