Perception Flashcards
Perception
The dynamic psychological process responsible for attending to, organizing and interpreting sensory data.
Perceptual World
The individual’s personal internal image, map or picture of their social, physical and organizational environment.
Selective attention
The ability, often exercised unconsciously, to choose from the stream of sensory data, to concentrate on particular elements, and to ignore others.
Perceptual threshold
A boundary point, either side of which our senses respectively will or will not be able to detect stimuli, such as sound, light or touch.
Habituation
The decrease in our perceptual response is stimuli once they become familiar.
Perceptual filters
Individual characteristics, predispositions and preoccupations that interfere with the effective transmission and receipt of messages.
Perceptual organization
The process through which incoming stimuli are organized or patterned in systemic and meaningful ways.
Perceptual test
An individual’s predisposition to respond to people and events in a particular manner.
Perceptual world
The individual’s personal internal image, map or picture of their social, physical and organizational environment.
Halo effect
An overall assessment of a person which influences our judgement of their other specific characteristics.
Stereotype
A category, or personality type, to which we allocate people on the basis of their membership of some known group.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
A prediction that becomes true because someone expects it to happen.
Attribution
The process by which we make sense of our environment through our perceptions of causality.
