Perception Flashcards
What is an important part of perception
the experiences we have to shape our perception
Enivornmental stimuli
cognitively
Confirmation bias
Individuals tend to disregard disconfirming cases and overweigh confirming cases when making judgments. when it goes against your belief it is bad evidence
before individuals see a relationship between the occurrence of two events they must see?
an external or previous cause event in. also known as Deterministic approach
mental models
knowledge stuctures that indidcuals create to explain, describe, and predict the world around us.
most people can keep a certain amount of cognitive models.
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what are mental models can be used for
developing shortcuts so we don’t have to evaluate certain areas in a
Unintentional vs intentional discrimination
Unintentional (systematic): decision-makers rely on stereotypes to establish notions of the ideal person in specific roles. holding unfounded negative attitudes toward people belonging to a particular stereotyped group”
Diversity
represents the many individual differences and similarities the are prevalent among people.
diversity programs are typically evaluated on how often
rarely
true or false the treatment of nonwhite employees by white managers was better after a diversity training program
false
true or false. diversity has an impact on workplace performance
false
attribution bias
the tendency to overemphasize external causes for ones own behavior, while doing the opposite for other’s
models for diversity
intergration and learning, access and legitmacy. discramanation and fairness
hypothetical dividing lines that separate groups into subgroups based on individual attributes
fault lines
