CMN 1148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: High-Context And Low-Context Cultures, Selective Perception
30 Jan 2018
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Five vehicles for perception: touch, taste, hearing, smell, sight, which interact with each other. Expectations, based on past experiences, govern our lives. 2015 12 6 t: but our first impression are often wrong. Perception is relative and context bound: this often depends on several factors: Other demographic factors: we are tall or short, depending upon the person with whom we compare ourselves. Standpoint theory: standpoint theory tells us that we can never escape our place in the economic, social, and political order, our perceptions depend on who we are, where we are, and how we got to this place. But there are also benefits to a (cid:1688) middle negative(cid:1689) mood: we process information more accurately. 2015 12 6 : we are more likely to recall information, we are more likely to detect deception, we are less likely to place undue importance on first impressions. We fill in the gaps, using past frameworks of experience.
