Interpersonal Communication

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Perception


What is Perception???

Perception is what we think or others think about others behavior, feeling, sense, thoughts and etc.
We are aware of anything around us.
We can perceive smell, thoughts, or basically anything. The senses that we can use is like smell, thoughts, sense, feel and the other senses as well.

Eg. What we can percieve??
The way we behave??
The way we act??
The way we talk??
Perceptions vary from person to person. Different people perceive different things about the same situation. But more than that, we assign different meanings to what we perceive. And the meanings might change for a certain person. One might change one's perspective or simply make things mean something else.
This is a famous picture. What does it look like to you?
Some people see a young lady looking away. Others see an old lady looking down. Depending on how you look at it, part of the picture might be the young woman's nose and eyelash, or it might be a wart on the old woman's nose. What is the young woman's ear might be the old woman's eye. What is the young woman's necklace might be the old woman's mouth. The picture hasn't really changed. You just emphasize different parts of it and assign them different meaning
The meaning of something will change when you look at it differently. You can look at anything differently and it will have a different meaning.
There is no fixed meaning to anything. You can always change perspectives and change meanings. Sometimes a certain thing might bring an entire different meaning to another.I personally think it depends alot on how we relate to our surroundings,how we respond to our environment etc.
Perception is the process of gathering information through our senses, organizing and making sense of it.
Previous experience and learning, attitudes and interests, needs and feelings, and the current situation all affect perception. All people do not "see" the same thing when looking at a visual image. Perception differs from individual to individual due to a variety of personal, socio-economical, and cultural differences.
Age, gender, race, and past experiences are examples of personal perception filters. Young children, teenagers, and adults "see" things differently.As they grow and develop, children learn to see and comprehend relationships and themes from visuals instead of simply seeing individual objects and shapes.

There are 4 types of perception which is :-
1) Sensation
2) Selection
3) Organiztion
4) Translation

1) Sensation - It is more to limitations of our organ sense. For example, hearing, talking, looking and the rest. The organizational factors are rules, policies, procedures, social factors and also social factors ( avoidance behavior)

2) Selection - Physical attributes which is the contrast, change, intensity or frequency. and for the Psychological Attribues is personality, interpersonal needs, emotions, expectation, beliefs.

3) Organization - The perception of organization is for those who have the similarity for example : color, size, personal characteristic and many more. It is also for those that have proximity liek time and spaces.

4)Translation - Perception of stereotyping, projectim, attribution, Halo J Herns effects.

What is self fullfiling prophecy??
It is about people's expectation given from another comment.
Eg : ( similar to the Law of Attraction) If i am told about how stupid i am, eventhough i am clever but in future i will slowly become stupid because i start to believe how stupid i am.
A person comment, or perception will change people into believing the person who actually they are not and slowly become the person.

What is implicit personality theory?
The general expectations that we build about a person after we know something of their central traits. For example when we believe that a happy person is also friendly.
Eg : I may assume intelligent people are arrogant, quiet people are timid and aggressive people are stupid.

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