Chapter 2

Question 1

What is Perception?

Answer 1

How you process information through your senses.

Question 2

What causes the difference in perceptions?

Answer 2

Identity Factors, Temporal Conditions, Past experiences, present feelings, circumstances, & how you see yourself.

Question 3

What is the process of Perception?

Answer 3

Selective exposure: What your senses see, hear, taste, touch, and smell that doesn’t contradict your beliefs.
Selective attention: What you choose to focus on or expose yourself to.
Selective perception: The tendency to see, hear, and believe what you want to.
Selective retention: Remember the things that reinforce your beliefs rather than those that oppose them.

Question 4

Organization methods

Answer 4

When a person organizes the stimuli in their own environment.

Question 5

1. Figure and ground
2. Closure
3. Proximity
4. Similarity

Answer 5

What are the kinds of organizational methods?

Question 6

• Stereotyping
• Perception
• First Impressions

Answer 6

The negative ways that affect our perception.

Question 7

What are the best ways to check your perception?

Answer 7

1. describe the observed behavior,
2. Suggest possible interpretations
3. Seek clarification

Question 8

Ways to make a great First Impression!

1. Be Authentic but don’t exaggerate
2. Get to the point.
3. Be creative in the language you use.
4. Don’t provide details that don’t relate to the story.
5. Gather info/other points of view from people who are part of the story.
6. Conclude with a memorable statement that is parallel to the introduction.

Answer 8

What is this called?