HROB 2100 Lecture 2: Chapter 2 - Perception, Personality and Emotions
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What is perception: the process by which individuals organize and interpret their impressions to give meaning to their environment, what one perceives can be substantially different from objective reality. What is it important: because behavior 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. Why we study perception: to better understand how people make attributions about events, we don"t see reality. We interpret what we see and call it reality: the attribution process guides our behavior, regardless of the truth of the attribution. Perceptual errors: attribution theory, selective perception, halo effect. The tendency to underestimate external factors and overestimate internal factors when making judgements about other"s behavior. The tendency to attribute one"s success to internal factors while putting the blame for failures on external factors. People selectively interpret what they see based on their interests, background, experience and attitudes.