What is Perception?
Perception is the impression that others give you and what you project to others
Perception process
Sensory Stimulation occur
- the sense organ are stimulated
Sensory Stimulation is Organized
- organized according to variance principles
Proximity Principle
Closure Principle
Sensory Stimulation is Interpreted-evaluated
- subjective process involving evaluation on the part of the perceiver
Process influencing perception
Implicit personality theory
You have your own opinion about someone's characteristic that say which characteristic of an individual go with other characteristic.
Self fulfilling prophecy
Occurs when you make a prediction or formulate a belief that comes true because you made the prediction and acted on it
Also known as Pygmalion effect
Perceptual Accentuation
lead you to see what you expect to see and what you want to see
Primacy- recency
use early information to provide yourself with a general idea of what a person is like. Then use later information to make this general idea more specific
the first impression you make is likely to be the most important, through this first impression other filter additional information to formulate a picture of whom they perceive you to be
Consistency
You expect certain things to go together and other things not to go together
People have a strong tendency to maintain balance or consistency among perceptions
Stereotyping
A fixed impression of a group of people
Everyone has attitudinal stereotypes of national, religious group, racial groups etc
Attribution
The process through which you try discover why people do what they do and even why you what you do
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