CMN 1148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Joshua Bell, Eyewitness Identification, Fundamental Attribution Error
15 Oct 2016
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CMN1148 September 23, 2016
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• How our perception influences our experiences?
• Context has a great influence on our perception of everything
• E: Joshua Bell, a faous ioliist is’t akoledged as suh eause he plas i sua aeas
but his concerts are sold out
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• Perception?
• Perception is the process if sensing, interpreting, and reacting to the physical world
• 7 characteristics of perception
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• 1. Perception is learned and backward learning
• We like when our perceptions trick us (ex: when we expect a certain scenario out of a movie but
something else happens instead)
• We put together information and clues to get meaning out of something
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• Perception is culture bound and racially biased
• Culture exerts a powerful influence on our perceptions
• Our perception of pain depends a lot on how the pain is viewed
• I este soieties e see pai as soethig ad. I othe ultues, pai is’t ieed
as bad- ex: pain associated with childbirth.
• Another ex: own race bias- e’e oe auate at idetifig people of our own race
• Ex: all Chinese people are the same- we cannot pick up perceptual differences, such as
subtle differences in eye shape or hair colour, etc.
• It’s a efletio of ou iailit to poess ou peeptual diffeees uless e’e oe
exposed to them
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