CMN 1148 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fundamental Attribution Error, Selective Perception, Ingroups And Outgroups

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1148
• Professor: Jenepher Lennox Terrion

Document Summary

P e rc e p tio n o f oth e rs. Perception is the process of sensing, interpreting, snd reacting to the physical world: perception is learned & backward looking. All of the senses have a learned dimension. Our past experiences and expectations influence what we perceive. Our culture and our race affect our perceptions. Different cultures have differences in their breadths of perceptual fields and different historical periods create optical communities. We are far more accurate in identifying members of our ow race than people of other races. This is called own race bias: perception is selective and self serving. Selective perception is the process by which we see and retain certain kinds of information while ignoring or discarding other kinds of information. We can only attend to a limited number of stimuli at once so we have to simplify the stimuli that flood our senses. We use perceptual filters to screen out unnecessary info.