CMN 134 Lecture 4: CMN 134 - Lecture 4
24 Mar 2017
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Perception: the process by which you filter and interpret what your senses tell you in order to create a meaningful picture of the world. Our perceptions are anchored in our own experiences. Organize: we like to organize things in our brains into things that make sense to us, proximity, closure: viewers tend to supply missing elements to close or complete a familiar figure, schemata: mental templates or structures. Interpret-evaluate: age, culture, religion, past experiences, mood/emotional state. Memory: storing perceptions and their interpretations-evaluations for later recall. Cognitive schemata: knowledge structures that people develop over the course of their lifetimes that help them interpret, remember, and organize new information. Self-schemata: self perceptions; self view which we work hard to maintain. In part, based on the degree to which others accept our reflections of self. How you view yourself influences the choices you make (because you got into.
