Perception is an important, dynamic, psychological process. As information provided by our sensory receptors, perception adds the texture of information by interpretation and organization of the information in comparison to past experience.
While Perception may provide information about certain stimuli, perception reflects not only sensory inputs but also the endogenous state when these inputs enter the brain. In other words...as The great Meichenbaum said..."much like beauty, stress is in the eye of the beholder".
For example, the video.
Context:
-Complicated HR
- time limit
- embassy with hostages
- team has to recover 500m to the embassy sprinting and immediately respond.
As they approach the window, the pointman localized the threat. He is the only one who see him. The elevated heart rate, anticipation, and other environmental constraints lead it to respond very intuitively- point at the window at the threat, shoot the threat. 1+1=2.
The wingman who hasn’t seen the opponent, but received very clear information that suggests the location of the threat, was able to associate an important visual cue with past training experience - the window,as a problematic medium for a projectile. In this case, arguably, the correct decision is to break the window/porthole to shot. More of a 2x2÷2=2
The two decisions conflicted, for reason, we often talk about in our posts here.
Knowing how windows can ballistically influence shooting, in this case my first action wouldnt be shooting through that window in such a manner. The men's decision risked each other, and created a less optimal result.
And yet....few ways to solve this problem. One is optimal, one is less. We normally train the optimal response..so why often we see individuals fail to resort to optimal despite xxxx level of repetition?
The answer is simple. The way we perceive the environment will greatly influence our response. Again - the way we see things, in correlation with the environment, will dictate a response.
If you will get deeper into this, you will see how most trainings are not transferable to real world.
