UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Perception involves selecting, organizing and interpreting sensory information. Teachers’ perceptions of students influence how they frame their messages, and students’ perceptions shape how they interpret those messages. Thus, perception strongly mediates classroom communication.

Option A:
Option A wrongly assumes that a clear message removes the role of perception. In reality, people may still interpret the same clear message differently based on their prior experiences.

Option B:
Option B is correct because perception affects how teachers frame messages (encoding) and how students interpret them (decoding), depending on their background, beliefs and experiences.

Option C:
Option C restricts perception to mass communication and ignores classroom interaction, where perception strongly shapes how messages are understood.

Option D:
Option D treats perception as purely physiological, ignoring its psychological aspects like interpretation and meaning-making, which are crucial in communication.