MGHB02H3 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 Notes
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) interpret the messages of your sense to provide order and meaning to the social perception process barriers to accurate social perception determining the causes of other people"s behaviour. Experience (most important): develop expectations differences in perception can lead to problems. Motivational state: differences in our needs influence our perception and interpretation of event can be source of conflict. Emotional state: perceptual defence occurs when our perceptual system serves to defend us against unpleasant emotions (tend to see what we want to see: the target target"s social status and ambiguity((cid:0) Leads to a greater need for interpretation and addition: the situation influence by adding information about the target. ) the most typical attributes of that category perceive members of their own social categories in more positive way ((cid:0) Filtering focus on the information based on my needs. Past experience & expectations don"t wanna use brain: needs and interests, limited information processing - cognitive misers ((cid:0)
