...GERARDO PEREZ-GARCIA 20120415 Y33-41-8925 DEP2000 REACTION PAPER WHAT IS PERCEPTION? Perception is our sensory experience of the world around us and involves both the recognition of environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli. Through the perceptual process, we gain information about properties and elements of the environment that are critical to our survival. Perception not only creates our experience of the world around us; it allows us to act within our environment. Perception includes the five senses; touch, sight, taste smell and taste. It also includes what is known as proprioception, a set of senses involving the ability to detect changes in body positions and movements. It also involves the cognitive processes required to process information, such as recognizing the face of a friend or detecting a familiar scent. When it comes down to our understanding of the world it is ultimately the result of our sensual means of perception. In other terms, can we really trust the truth, or anything that we know of scientifically? What does it mean to know something is true and also why it is important to distinguish between what you know and do not or cannot know? It is very difficult to be able to believe everything you hear, unless you experience it for yourself. Let’s say that perception is like viewing through goggles. If the tint of the goggles is green, the world appears green; if it’s black the world too becomes black. You want to see poverty, you...
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...1 Sensory Perception 2 Sensory Perceptions Sensory data is an exploration of collected abilities formed through the senses of observation throughout a person’s life span. The ability to analyze and categorize images, sounds, tastes and touch sparks the likes and dislikes of gathered information. In other words, accuracy and inaccuracy takes form in what a person perceive about the collected data in that moment. Even though, perceptions of information can change at any given time, there is the ability to memorize certain behaviors and information. Furthermore, one simple reason is because as a person evolves, senses are mature enough to form decision based on learned, environmental data Accuracy of sensory information is a perception of a person’s belief pattern. For example, how a person view his or her religion as being the accurate path to the heavens or God. As mentioned before, often than not what a person believes to be accurate is their reality to learned information. However, there are no advances for achieving the right conclusion on any situation but there are derived ambitions to reach desired results. Should a person only perceive their conclusion of information to known accuracy? Most likely not because there are alternatives and differences of gathered data to reach a conclusion. Three reasons for believing in the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information are not limited to 1.) Environmental cues, meaning the cultural views and environment that we have...
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...Perceptions “Perception is the result of the processes of selection, organization, and interpretation of information collected through the senses. Perception involves using what one sees, hears, tastes, smells, and feels to derive meaning from the environment and experiences. Whether done consciously or unconsciously, perception is a fundamental component of communication” (Alberts, 2009). When I reviewed the assignment, I immediately starting going through the list of people I could ask to answer the interview questions for me, this caused a little anxiety because I was already thinking of what certain people would say. Ultimately, I asked my husband. I chose him because he could evaluate from both a personal and professional viewpoint. Interview As we got started with the interview, I was anxious and I think my husband was apprehensive also. I think he was worried how I would react to his answers, which is understandable. I assured him that I was very open to this process and I truly valued his responses and input. The interview was going very smoothly until we reached question number four, which was “allow others to finish speaking”. When I asked this one, he hesitated and I could tell from his body language he wanted to say something more. We discussed the question and ultimately he told me that I do not always allow people, him, to finish talking before I jump in. He is correct; sometimes it is difficult for me to let someone finish their thought. This...
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...Perception 1. Describe Jim’s self-concept. Jim is using a personal construct, or mental yardstick, to measure his intelligence and responsibility when he is discussing how he is performing in school (Wood, 2012). He compares himself to his father by claiming his father is brilliant and did not have any trouble in school versus himself who is struggling to pull C’s. Jim feels that no matter how hard he tries he will never be an A student because he is using a self-servicing bias that college is more difficult than when his father went to college and he has no control of the difficulty (Wood, 2012). Jim is attributing his grades to external forces, such as more difficult material, and believes that no matter how much studying he will not receive better grades. 2. Explain, using examples from the video and course concepts, how Jim’s self-concept impacted his interaction with his father. Was it positive or negative? Jim’s self-concept had a negative impact on his interaction with his father. Jim states that he does not know how to convince his parents that he is doing everything that he can do. Wood (2012) explains that perceiving another person as domineering can create a feeling of insecurity in ability to communicate. Jim could attribute his parent’s concern that he is spending too much time with friends and not enough time studying as domineering and may not feel comfortable explaining that he is doing the best that he can. Jim is using self-servicing bias in his communication...
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...Perception affects communication because people perceive things that are being said how they want to perceive it. One person can take things being said in a different way than how someone else takes it. If things are taken the wrong way, communication can get angry or hurtful. According to Robbins, perception can be defined as ‘a process by which individuals organise and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment’ (2004, p. 132). Perception is not necessarily based on reality, but is merely a perspective from a particular individual’s view of a situation. In dealing with the concept of organisational behaviour, perception becomes important because ‘people’s behaviour is based on their perception of what reality is, not on reality itself; the world as it is perceived is the world that is behaviourally important’ (Robbins et al 2004, p.132). Perception affects our working relationships in many ways relating to the factors of organisational behaviour, such as: individual, group or structure. For example, based on the situation, perceiver and target we may have the perception that the people we are working with are no good at their job, and therefore we may tend to avoid working with them, in fear of being held responsible for their mistakes, and in doing so, affecting our working relationship with our team members, and ultimately, the effectiveness and efficiency of the organisation. Alternatively, it may affect the group within the organisation...
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...Perception is a very powerful thing many people rely heavily on other people’s perceptions of them. I myself rely on the fact that people find me to be knowledgeable as well as someone that is easy to talk to in order to do my job well. This paper will help me to understand how perception works through doing an analysis of what three observers declared were their perceptions of a photograph. In this paper, I will explain the steps of the perception process; as well as provide descriptions of my observers as well as explanations as to how their backgrounds may have affected their perceptions. Finally I will look into my observer’s perceptions by analyzing their thoughts. There are three steps in the perception process in this section I will discuss those steps. Step one is selection: which is defined as focusing more on one group of things than another. We do this because our brain is so overloaded with information everyday that it is forced to only focus on certain things. The second step is organization: which can be defined as putting our thoughts about things that seem to fit together, together in order to remember them better. This happens in a moment as soon as we see something our brain automatically assigns it to an area of our brain that holds similar knowledge. The third and final step is interpretation: which can be defined as determining the meaning of certain events or interactions. This step is where we give meaning to what we have...
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...Running head: ARGUMENT AND COLLABORATION Perception elskandisa University of Phoenix Perception Perception is how a person makes sense of the world around them. Individuals use stimulation and senses to make judgments about people, places and things. Each person has a different perspective of certain stimulation which gives them a sense of his/her surroundings. This explains how two individuals can witness an event, yet perceive the same event in different ways. Individuals are constantly being bombarded by stimulation of his/her environment that affects his/her physical senses. Because each individual has a filter that was shaped by his/her childhood and life experiences, they may only focus on things that are familiar, blocking out important information that would allow them to make informed decisions. Individuals perceive stimulation he/she are used to, which satisfies basic needs such as emotions, attitudes and self awareness. An individual’s perception may be flawed if they misinterpret the event, leading to perceptual errors. Each individual selectively picks up on cues that influence his/her perception of the event. Often individuals interpret or project the behavior of others, thus possibly seeing themselves in the role of the person being judged. It is often said that perception is reality. What a manager or co-worker sees or perceives to be reality is very real to him/her. Thus this can cause perceptual processes to determine behavior...
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...developed a perception of her new boss is that he might be sexist. She feels that he might be overlooking more qualified female instructors for men. Perception is a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment. (Robbins & Judge, 2013) I will be discussing Miranda’s perception of her boss and the factors that have influenced her judgment. I will talk about the way she sees her boss Hank and if there might be any errors in her judgment. Finally I will discuss what I believe this young ski instructor should do. Miranda’s perception of the situation is that her boss Hank does not treat the men and women fairly at the ski resort. Miranda might be correct as all the men instructors were assigned to adults while the women taught all the children The men instructor’s would report to Hank and the women to Hank’s Japanese wife Harika, 10 years his junior, and unable to speak English with confidence. (Cohen, Fink, Gadon, Wilits,, & Josefowitz, 2013) The only supervisor’s for the ski lodge would be men and all assignments would be handled through the front desk and that no instructors were to schedule own classes. The changing room for the instructors’ turned into a men’s locker room where inappropriate conversation became the norm and included Hank, Miranda’s boss. Hank had even begun to comment on how Miranda looked. A number of factors operate to shape and sometimes distort perception. These factors...
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...Perception The literal meaning of perception is ‘Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to fabricate a mental representation’. The best personal encounter I had was between my newly appointed Manager & Team Lead. We used to take daily calls with our client for gathering the requirement for a new banking project. Their followed a systematic way of approach towards gathering, analyzing, and constantly discussing on the issues at hand and finally documenting and getting a written sign off on the requirement. This process was to be completed in a span of 3 months. Around the third month, the client started pushing and rushing with more requirements and there was less time to already accommodate the existing assignments at hand and on top more was coming in. As the manager was new to the project and he also wanted to establish himself, he compromised employees excessive workload by accepting and saying ‘Yes’ to whatever the client was demanding. He missed the fact that he can’t infer or perceive even without knowing what the employees had difficulties about. And secondly all this were falling into a process where the Quality of output was being compromised. The process was falling apart, then my Team Lead stepped in and had a discussion about this with the manger and made him realize that saying ‘yes’ to all what client is saying would further aggravate the issue. Accepting the requirement now and unable to cater...
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...What typical errors do we make in person perception? How can these perceptual errors be avoided? “Perception is a dynamic process because it involves ordering and attaching meaning to ‘raw’ sensitive data” (Huczynsky and Buchanan, 2001, p.217). In other words, perception refers to the way people understand the world around them. It is a dynamic process because the information is processed through the use of the five sensatory organs and then given significance (Anon.). Therefore it is subjective in nature. Given that, it is logical to expect errors or differences in judgment as the human factor is involved. Typical errors that arouse in person perception are due to stereotyping, bias, over-analyzing, gullibility or skepticism, making hasty assumptions, and misinterpretation. The psychological condition of a person also applies to his ability to make conclusions in a sense that it dictates his emotions, thoughts and actions. In addition it would be the psychological attitude of a person that will help him judge people, situations, and the ongoing environment with more precision, eliminating perceptual errors. The process of perception comes in three stages (Thornton, 2009). The first stage refers to bringing attention to certain stimuli in an environment and selecting a specific one giving it the highest priority (Thornton, 2009). In an environment that is raging with stimuli such as light, sound, and movement a person selects the one to pay attention to and leaves the others...
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...Running head: SENSORY PERCEPTIONS Assignment #1 Sensory Perceptions Mary D. L. Allen Critical Thinking Dr. Anne Keyes January 23, 2013 Strayer University In this assignment, this paper will take a look at sensory data and the accuracy or inaccuracy it presents. This will include the reasons in which someone believes in the accuracy of sensory information. It will consider and explain three factors that furnish sensory data to our senses. Finally, the paper will describe the character of nature and nurture to point out how to understand and evaluate sensory data. Basically, sensory perception is defined as an individual’s view of senses sent to the brain in order to help the individual make a decision. Three reasons for believing in the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information are perception, interpretation, and knowledge (Anonymous, 2013). Perception is when someone walks in the kitchen to put down bags of groceries and sets a bag on the stove which appears to off. It is off and there would be no reason to believe the information to be inaccurate. However, the stove was recently used and the burners are still hot, which causes the grocery bag to catch on fire. The eyes are deceiving and allowed an individual to put bags of groceries on a hot stove. All this means is someone did not analyze the situation clearly and make the correct decision. It is a matter of how the individual perceived...
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...PERCEPTION 1. We all see the world in our own way, and interpret it differently. Several people can see the same incident and give very different accounts. 2. Senses differ from perception 3. For marketers, consumers perceptions are much more important than their knowledge of objective reality. "Reality" is an individuals perception of what has taken place. 4. What people think or believe is in many ways more important than what really is 5. Perception is defined as "how we see the world around us" our perception is based on our needs, values, expectations 6. Perception is the process by which an individual selects, organises and interprets stimuli into a meaningful and coherent picture of the world (stimulus = input to the senses). 7. Sensation = immediate and direct response of the sensory organs to simple stimuli eg. an advertisement, a brand name, a package. 8. ABSOLUTE THRESHOLD = point at which a person can detect a difference between something and nothing. It is different for each individual - adaptation = getting used to a sensation senses becoming dulled to it, because of adaptation, advertisers try to change their campaign regularly, use attention gaining techniques eg. samples, stunts etc. Packaging also is designed to stand out from the rest, to gain attention. i.e. if you sense the same thing over and over again you will become bored with it and turn off from it. 9. DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD = minimal difference between two stimuli...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Search Options Bottom of Form * Home * Contact Us * Access old SpringerLink Sign up / Log in English Academic edition Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics© Psychonomic Society, Inc. 201210.3758/s13414-012-0370-4 Contextual influences of dimension, speed, and direction of motion on subjective time perception Spencer R. Kline1 and Catherine L. Reed1 (1) Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 81711, USA Catherine L. Reed Email: clreed@cmc.edu Published online: 14 September 2012 Abstract Research has indicated that the direction of motion and the speed of motion can influence the subjective estimates of temporal duration of two-dimensional (2-D) stimuli expanding and contracting within the picture plane. In this study, we investigated whether the contextual cues of stimulus/movement-plane dimensionality (2-D stimuli with implied movement in the picture plane or depth-rendered “3-D” stimuli with implied movement in the depth plane) influence and interact with speed and implied movement direction during interval estimation. Participants viewed a series of standard stimulus durations followed by a test stimulus duration and determined whether the test and standard durations differed. The results indicated that moving stimuli were overestimated relative to stationary stimuli, regardless of the direction of motion or dimensionality...
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...Chapter 5 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS Summary of Findings This study was conducted to primarily assess high school students’ view of the school counselor’s role. This chapter will describe the research questions, sample, instrument, setting, and data analysis employed in the study. 1. How did the participants perceive the importance of school counselor roles in terms of academic success? By the use of the data gathered from the questionnaires answered by the participants, the results perceived that the role of assisting students in special education service and encouraging them to choose challenging are important. So is the function of helping the students with any personal problems and cooperating with teachers, parents, and principal was viewed as an important responsibility to support students do well in school. While starting programs to help students excel in school was given an impression as less important. This implies that students seek supervision from their school counselor when they are having difficulty in academics. 2. How did the participants perceive the importance of school counselor roles in terms of career development? In the category of the counselor’s job in the career development of students, the data gave an outcome that bringing local business people in the school to help students learn about jobs and careers...
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...I have chosen ABORTION as my subject. Here are the views of a select few:- 1. Abortion not only kills a living being but also puts the woman’s health at risk. Abortion is fine but not after the foetus is developed. 2. It should be allowed for women under 18years of age otherwise should not be. 3. Abortion=death before life. Its a brutal attempt to kill humanity. 4. I believe that there is no child conceived that was not meant to be conceived. It is not our place as humans to "play God" and determine if a child should be born. 5. Under no circumstance do I believe in abortion. The guilt that you feel after wards regardless of how you got pregnant can do irreparable damage. 6. Abortion is a woman's right. Only she can decide. If she is mature enough to conceive, she is mature enough to make a decision. Others around her should stop meddling with an affair they have no business in. 7. If you look at abortion from a point of view that you may be destroying a living being(which is a sin). But, I still believe that accepting the pregnancy just for the sake of others is also wrong. After all its your life. 8. I agree with abortion if someone is raped, are homeless, has an addiction, is a teenager, has mental health issues . 9. According to me, it depends upon the individual. There should be a valid reason for doing it. It shouldn’t be done if one is not happy with the child’s gender. 10. It is better to have an abortion when...
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