CMN 1148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Selective Perception, Sexual Orientation, Standpoint Theory
18 Nov 2016
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Perception is the process of sensing, interpreting, and reacting to the physical world. Repetitious occurrences, the novel, the unusual, intense stimuli, contrast, things that motivate us. Films: the sixth sense, expecting certain outcomes and behaviors. Selective perception is the process by which we see and retain certain kinds of information while ignoring or discarding other kinds of information. We are bombarded by two million bits of information each second, so we must discard much of what comes to us (ex. We focus on what is meaningful to us. We pay attention to and recall what makes us look better. We perceive, remember, and respond more to the negative than to the positive. We judge ourselves more generously than we judge other people; that is, we display self-serving bias. Perception is spontaneous, largely unconscious and value driven: We use obvious cues to decide on personal characteristics (ex. We connect those characteristics to personality (ex. We use personality to anticipate behaviors (ex.
