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Person Perception

Presented by Mr. Hor Chanrotha CMU’s undergraduate program, Nov 2009

Chapter 2

Perception is an active process of creating meaning of everything by Selecting, Organizing, and Interpreting

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Course Objectives1. What is perception?2. Perceiving people and objectives3. Forming Impressions4. Some Variable Involved in Accurate

Perception5. Improving Perception and

Communication

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1. What is Perception?• It is a process of understanding ourselves

and others.

• It is a mental process through which we interpret that which we sense.

Perception is an active process of creating meaning of everything by Selecting, Organizing, and Interpreting

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1. What is Perception?

It is an active process of creating meaning by Selecting, Organizing, and Interpreting

People

Objectives Situation

ActivitiesEvents

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Perceptual Information1. Sight => eye2. Hearing => ear3. Touch => skin or body 4. Taste => tongue 5. Smell => nose

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Process of Person Perception

Select Organize Interpret

Information Meaning

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2- Perceiving People & Objectives

Physiological Psychological

Filters

SelectOrganize

Interpret

Perception

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Person Perception

Objective/Passive Subjective/Active

We provide meaningThe same meaning for all people

Differences Occur

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Why Do Differences in Perception Occur?

1. Physiological Factors: physical => mental factors

2. Past Experience: roles, cultures, educations => lead us to see the world differently

3. Present Feeling & Circumstances

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3- Forming Impression

Looking at yourself

Looking at others

Social Roles

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Looking at Yourself• Self-concept• Self-esteem• Feedback• Shyness• Self-fulfilling prophecies: our expectation• Behavior attribution: the way you perceive

your self and others.

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Looking at Others

1.First impression and primacy effect : first is

important & affect to later.

2.Physical Attractiveness: beautiful, sexy, thin, fat…

3.Expressiveness: dimension of nonverbal

communication.

4.Personal generalization & stereotype: culture, physical attribute, group member...

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I don't care my life is mine

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Social RolesWork roles: occupation title or statusStudent roles: well behaved, patient,

controlled, polite. Sex-link roles:

Women more supported and maintained than man

Men dominant, achievement and win Marital roles

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Marital rolesMarriage Relationship

Gender Women MenTraditional Feminine and do

house jobMasculine and do outside job

Reluctant wife Feminine Both

Reluctant husband

Both Masculine

Androgynous Both Both

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Perception is an active process of creating meaning of everything by Selecting, Organizing, and Interpreting

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4- Some Variable Involved in Accurate Perception

• The effect of context: majority and group opinion are just one instance in which context.

• Perceiver self confidence: people feel their perception to be extremely accurate

• Other perceiver traits: accurate perception is associated with sound of perception of others

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4- Some Variable Involved in Accurate Perception

• Intelligence,• Cognitive Complexity, • Positive Adjustment, • Interpersonal Trust, • and Social Sensitivity.

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5- Improving Perception and Communication

• Failure of communication frequently occur because people have inaccurate perception.

People

Perceiver

Objective

Context

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5- Improving Perception and Communication

Perception is subjective

Empathy: seeing and feeling as the other does

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Select Organize Interpret

Information Meaning

PeopleObjectives Situation

ActivitiesEvents

Summary of Person Perception

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Meaning

Objective/Passive Subjective/Active

Information

We provide meaning =>Differences Occur

The same meaning for all people

physical & mental factors, Past Experience, Present Feeling & Circumstances

Perception is an active process of creating meaning of everything by Selecting, Organizing, and Interpreting