MGCR 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Selective Perception, Ipad, Information Processing

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 222
• Professor: Ferguson

Document Summary

Perception is the process by which people select, organize, interpret, retrieve, and respond to information from the world around them. Factors influencing perception: perception varies = decisions made and actions taken vary, everyone has a different perception, factors influencing : perceiver, setting and perceived. Characteristics of the perceive: past experiences, needs, motives, personality, values, attitudes. Characteristics of the setting: physical, social and organizational context, ex. Temperamental teammate is tolerable, a temperamental leader may come out as a bully. Characteristics of the perceived: contrast, intensity, size, motion, repetition, novelty, ex. 1 ipad next to 5 android tablets: ex. A bright red car around all white cars. Information processing and the perception process: feelings, thoughts and actions. Appropriate steps in running a meeting: person schemas: sort people into categories and used for comparison prototypes : pre- set bundles of features expected to be characteristic of people in certain categories or roles (ex.