ECE1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stereotype, Fundamental Attribution Error, Standpoint Theory
18 Oct 2018
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Intensity: repetition, contrast or change, motives, emotional state. Organization: arrange information in meaningful way: perceptual schema: cognitive frameworks, internal representations. Organizing perceptions of people: 4 types of perceptual schema, physical constructs, role constructs, psychological constructs. Interaction constructs: use schema to make generalizations, stereotyping: exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system, based on easily recognized but not important characteristics, ascribing a set of characteristics to most or all members of a. Interpretation group: degree of involvement, relational satisfaction, past experience, assumptions about human behaviour, expectations, knowledge of others. Negotiation: perception is not a solitary activity, exchange of stories in narratives, clash of narratives. How we select, organize, interpret and negotiate information is influenced by factors that fall under four categories: physiological factors, psychological factors, social factors, cultural factors. Psychological influences: the senses, age, health, hunger, biological cycles, mood, emotional state influences how we view people and events, self-concept, play a role in how we interpret others" behaviour.
