MGCR 222 Chapter Notes -Selective Perception, Hindsight Bias, Reward System
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What is perception: a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment, pb: our perception reality. Attitudes, personality, motives, interests, past experiences, expectations : target, situation. Attribution theory: attempts to explain the ways in which we judge ppl depending on the meaning we attribute to a given behavior, 2 types of behaviors. Those we believe to be under personal control of the individual. What we imagine the situation forced the individual to do: 3 factors. Whether an individual display behaviors in situations. Errors or biases distort attributions: self serving bias. Common shortcuts in judging others: selective perception. A general impression about an individual on the basis of a single characteristic: contrast effects. Influenced by the ppl encountered before: stereotyping. Judging someone on the basis of our perception of the group to which he belongs. Based on gender, age, race, religion, ethnicity . The link btw perception & individual decision making.