04:192:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Trait Theory
7 Apr 2016
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As we meet another we automatically begin trying to figure out who is this individual by compering the unknown to what we already know our personal schema. What category can i place this individual in rutgers professor. Then, we use our personal constructs the characteristics that belong to this category to further understand the individual rutgers" professor probably has liberal bias. This helps us predict future behavior stereotyping and allows us to know what to do in a particular situation script. The people perception is very similar to the visual perception process three components (stages of perception): Selection of stimuli pay attention to what is unusual, similar, distinctive, easiest, closest and loudest. Directing attention to a subset ( ) of sensory information. The selection of stimuli for further processing happens subconsciously. One basic force that shapes what stimuli we attend to is our point of view or the perspective that we have on a situation.
