ADM 2336 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Job Performance, Stereotype Threat, Job Satisfaction
21 Oct 2013
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The way we make sense and interpreted the information given to our senses such as touch, smell, taste, sight, etc. We might be given the best pay in the firm but think our pay is low because we don"t know our surrounding or even know our surrounding but perceive it as low compared to the ceo. Our experience, emotion and needs affect our perception. Our past experience gives us expectation on situations or people. Take for example a survey from fortune 500, women, non caucasian men and women felt that race and gender caused barrier in promotion way more than caucasian men. This is probably because they"ve experienced such barrier more than caucasian men. We like to interpret things and give it some meaning. When the target is ambiguous (more than just one interpretation), it is more susceptible to interpretation and addition. Just because we have more information about one target, doesn"t mean we will know about it more accurately.
