BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: High High, Fundamental Attribution Error, Job Performance
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Perception the process of interpreting the messages of our senses to provide order and meaning to the environment. If you perceive your pay to be low, you may seek out new employment. A perceiver, a target that is being perceived and some situational context in which the perception is occurring. The perceiver"s experience, needs, and emotions can affect his/her perceptions of a target. Past experiences lead the perceiver to develop expectations and these expectations affect current perceptions. Perceptual defence can come into play where we hear what we want to hear and our perceptual system is working to ensure we do not see or hear things that are threatening. Perception involves interpretation and the addition of meaning to the target, and ambiguous targets are especially susceptible to interpretation and addition. Every instance of perception occurs in some situational context and this can affect what one perceives.
