Sixth order perceptions - control of relationships

Relationships, the way things go together, are something which is learned, so that one makes appropriate responses in a given situation. It is the awareness that a café is somewhere that one eats. One may recognize a configuration (for example, one's mother), be aware of transition (she is walking towards one), be capable of physical response, know that physical response is required and yet not know what that response is (it is appropriate to kiss her, to say hello). That response would be a sixth order perception.

The sixth of ten orders in the perceptual system described by William Glasser.