COMM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stereotype, Confirmation Bias
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Perception: interpreting the sensory experience of the world: making assumptions on the world around us, perception that others have and when they don"t line up with ours it creates tension, ex: blue/black or gold/white dress. Selective attention: hone in on certain things and miss other things, when we focus on one thing we can miss other things, ability to process certain stimuli and filter out other things. How we live and whom we lived with impacts our filters: psychological sets: expectation that shape experiences. How certain types of information can jump out at us in certain situations. Overuse of personality reasons (disppositions) with others. Joe failed the exam because he"s lazy and foolish. I failed because those questions were ridiculous and hard: self-serving bias. Impression formation: all have our own formula as what we value as important and not so important, use formula to get impression of others. Looking-glass self: tend to see ourselves the way others see us.
