MGHB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Selective Perception, Gender Role, Subjective Constancy
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Perception: definition: interpreting the messages of our senses to provide order and meaning to the environment, components, perceiver: experience (lead to expectations), needs, emotion. Perceptual defence: perceptual system"s tendency to defend the perceiver against unpleasant emotions: target: ambiguity (does not reduce with more info. Categorize people in the most appropriate way for the situation and is relative to other social categories. Perception of others is a function of how you categorize yourself and the target. People tend to have positive perception of others in the same category (stereotyping, discrimination: perceptual process (bruner) Unfamiliar target openness to target cues observe familiar cues categorize target cue selectivity . Implicit personality theories: personal theories about which personality traits go together: projection: tendency to attribute their own thoughts and feelings to others. Perceptual defence (in cases of threatening/undesirable characteristics: stereotyping: tendency to generalize people in a certain social category and ignore variations among them. Inaccurate stereotypes are reinforced by helping us process info.
