COMM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Physical Attractiveness, Stereotype
18 Sep 2018
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Perception: interpreting the sensory experience of the world. We have limited capacity to register sensory signals. Hear some things but listen to others. Perceptual filter: physical limits, alter what we acknowledge. We have different perceptions, we have different opinions. Looking for something, that"s where your attention will focus. Personal past experience can influence what you are looking for. We select stimuli that are important or entertaining to us. We select stimuli that are repetitive - draws attention. Things that are changing - when something is uniform and there is an abrupt change, attention is on that change. Organize that information into a form that makes sense. Biases and limitations can lead to error. The process of assigning meaning to others" behavior. Self attribution tends to differ from other attribution. We act a certain way because of the situation . Others act a certain way because of who they are . Attributions differ as people focus on different information.
