BUS3 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sensory Overload, Social Identity Theory, Fundamental Attribution Error
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3 stage perceptual process the mental process that we use to understand our environment. We tend to select, organize, and evaluate the stimuli in our environment. Sensory overload if we tried to do everything the process of gathering, selecting, and interpreting information about how we view ourselves and others. Involves selection of stimuli, cues, and signals to which we pay attention to: What we notice what grabs our attention information in while keeping out the rest. Perceptual filter : the process of letting some. Salient cues : shoes that are somehow so but not all, physical and social cues striking that they stand out we use salient elements and cues more heavily than others in our perceptual process. Interpretation and judgment our filters have allowed through. During this stage, we organize information that. Schemas: mental or cognitive models or patterns that people apply to understand and explain some situations and events.