BUSI 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fellow Traveller, Schizophrenia, Nonverbal Communication
11 Feb 2016
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Perception is the process by which we select, organize, and evaluate the stimuli in our environment to make it meaningful for ourselves. Hearing voices - schizophrenic versus schizophrenic in remission . Helps us know how to related to others. Bathing suit at beach not at office. We perceive things through our mental maps. Depending on which one of these is important to you. You focus on this when making perceptions. People also focus on jobs and hobbies draw conclusions. According to attribution theory when people observe behaviour, they attempt to determine whether it is internally or eternally caused. People look for information about consensus, consistency, and distinctiveness to decide on causation. Self-serving bias is the tendency for people to attribute their successes to internal factors while blaming external factors for their failures. People seek a positive image of themselves and their environment with such vigor that reality is selectively interpreted and often ignored.
