HROD 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Big Five Personality Traits, Moers

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics
• Course: HROD 317
• Professor: James Meurs

Document Summary

Collecting data via senses: selecting focus on particular facts or information, organizing ordering and sorting the data we have. What is perception: the process by which individuals organize and interpret their impressions to give meaning to their environment. Why is it important: because behaviour is based on perception of what reality is, not on reality itself, the world as it is perceived is the world that is behaviourally important. To better understand how people make attributions about events. We interpret what we see and call it reality. The attribution process guides our behaviour, regardless of the truth of the attribution. Attribution theory: when individuals observe behaviour, they attempt to determine whether it is internally or externally caused. Selective perception: people selectively interpret what they see based on their interests, background, experience, and attitudes. Halo effect: drawing a general impression about an individual based on a single characteristic, such as intelligence, likeability, or appearance.