CMN 1148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Long-Term Memory, Selective Perception, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1148
• Professor: Jenepher Lennox Terrion

Document Summary

Lecture 3 how our perceptions influence our experiences. Perception= the process of sensing, interpreting, and reacting to the physical world. All of the senses have a learned dimension. Our past experiences and expectations influence what we perceive (backwards looking) This explains the success of many plot twists in movies (where you are shocked by a sudden turn of events) It also explains, in part, why card tricks work. Culture exerts a powerful influence on our perceptions. Perceptions of pain vary throughout the world (eg: labour and birth, in western societies pain is viewed as sth to be fixed. In other cultures, labour pain is part of the process and viewed as necessary). We are far more accurate in identifying members of our own race than people of (cid:28674)(cid:28679)(cid:28667)(cid:28664)(cid:28677) (cid:28677)(cid:28660)(cid:28662)(cid:28664)(cid:28678) (cid:28603)(cid:28705)(cid:28660)(cid:28671)(cid:28671) (cid:28671)(cid:28674)(cid:28674)(cid:28670) (cid:28679)(cid:28667)(cid:28664) (cid:28678)(cid:28660)(cid:28672)(cid:28664)(cid:28706)(cid:28604) (cid:28603)t(cid:28667)(cid:28668)(cid:28678) (cid:28668)(cid:28678) (cid:28662)(cid:28660)(cid:28671)(cid:28671)(cid:28664)(cid:28663) own race bias) Cross-race faces are perceived less holistically than own-race faces (eg: we might look at the parts more than the whole).