Police Foundations LAW210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Interpersonal Perception, Selective Perception, Uncertainty Reduction Theory
12 Jun 2018
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POLICE FOUNDATIONS-LAW210
LECTURE 4
Interpersonal Relations and Conflict Management
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for” – John Lubbock
Understanding interpersonal perception
• Perception: experiencing the world and making sense out of what is experience
• Interpersonal perception: the process of selecting, organizing and interpreting our
observations of other people
Stage one selecting:
Principles of selection:
• Selective perception:
Is the process of making sense of the work based on factors of personality, beliefs,
attitudes, hopes, fears and culture- what we like and don’t like
• Selective attention:
Is focusing on specific stimuli in the environment and ignoring others
• Selective exposure:
Is the tendency to put ourselves in situation that reinforce our attitudes, beliefs, values or
beahviours
• Selective recall:
Is when we remember what we want and forget or suppress unpleasant or uncomfortable
things
Generalizations based on observing a small sample of a person’s behavior is called thin slicing
Stage two organizing:
• We create categories
- Superimpose is placing a familiar structure on information you select
• We link categories
- Punctuation is making sense out of stimuli by grouping, dividing, organizing,
separating and categorizing information
• We seek closure
- Closure is the process of filling in missing information
Stage three interpreting:
- We attempt to make sense of the verbal and nonverbal cues we experience
- We interpret based on socialization and our own recurring experiences
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for john lubbock. Understanding interpersonal perception: perception: experiencing the world and making sense out of what is experience. Interpersonal perception: the process of selecting, organizing and interpreting our observations of other people. Is the process of making sense of the work based on factors of personality, beliefs, attitudes, hopes, fears and culture- what we like and don"t like: selective attention: Is focusing on specific stimuli in the environment and ignoring others: selective exposure: Is the tendency to put ourselves in situation that reinforce our attitudes, beliefs, values or beahviours: selective recall: Is when we remember what we want and forget or suppress unpleasant or uncomfortable things. Generalizations based on observing a small sample of a person"s behavior is called thin slicing. Superimpose is placing a familiar structure on information you select: we link categories.
