Essay about Aesome Ball Girl and Perception

The book "8 Ball Chicks," written by Gini Sikes is a thrilling yet shocking book about girls in gangs. The book explains in horrific detail the roles and existences of the girls in these gangs. Sikes traveled to several different cities to experience the life of girl gangsters. She traveled to Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Milwaukee. Through these travels, she became immersed in the lifestyles of each gang and had first hand accounts on what it was like to be in a gang.

Those four schemas are physical constructs, role constructs, interaction constructs, and psychological constructs. I however didn’t really use all four of those constructs when watching the amazing catch. I used three of the four schema, the physical, role and interaction constructs were the ones I used while classifying the information I perceived. When it comes to the physical constructs, it emphasizes people’s physical attributes. I noticed the girl wasn’t very tall, she was probably mid twenties, and that she had a slim body shape, which are all factors that make the catch hard to believe. The role constructs emphasize people’s social or professional position. I noticed at the end of the video was that she was a ball girl, and most ball girl or boys don’t ever go for a ball if it is in play or could potentially stay in play which I thought was a tad bit odd. The last construct that I used is the interaction construct. The interaction construct emphasizes people’s behaviors and I noticed that the girl kept her head down until she was in the chair with the camera on her. I find that weird because if you had just made a catch as amazing as that in a major league baseball game the last thing you would be doing is calmly jogging back to your seat. You would be showing off and admiring all of the cheers you were getting from the crowd. Stage one also aided in completing stage two because without being able to select the different

August 17, 2014 was a brightly hectic day dulled down by the fact that it was the first day of my sophomore year of high school. Forty-five minutes into Ms. Higgins' lecture on Englewood High School dress code Garrett Martinez strutted into the room. Wearing black sunglasses, a baby blue Captain America t-shirt, and blue jeans he moved toward the only available seat with the grace of a wannabe city slicker. Immediately after trading his shades in for a pair of regular glasses he pulled his poodle like hair into a hot pink hair tie and struck up a conversation with the professor about "Doctor Who" and "Sherlock". From that moment I could tell that we would be amazing friends; boy was I wrong.

The continuum model proposed by Fiske and Neuberg in 1999 explains how people can use different impression formation processes to categorize new acquaintances in different social environments. These being category-based processing, which might be even seen as primitive and innate from the human consciousness, we can slowly move towards a more piecemeal data-based processing as our motivation and relative importance is increased. Otherwise we stand in an almost superficial stereotypical assumption of human perception.

Selection process of perception begins when one or more of your senses are stimulated, rather than pay attention to all the stimuli you engage in selection, the process in which your mind and body help you choose certain stimuli to attend to. (109 Floyd)

We then subconsiously categorize the physical constructs, role constructions, interaction constructs, and psychological constructs. Physically, we are both two males sitting next to eachother, our role as students makes us classmates, and the interaction between two classmates is usually trivial — however ours wasn’t. We then try to relate to eachother’s comments and stories — i.e. personal interpretation, and have since been able to better eachother’s perception of

It is essential that humans focus on specific objects as they would not be able to perform one action at a time, and humans see their world in objects. Another purpose of attention is so that actions can be directed and controlled (Allport, 1987 cited in Naish 2010). It is important to research this in order to optimise health and safety and performance in occupational fields and make further discoveries in clinical neuropsychology. Some debates rage around how we attend to objects through our auditory and visual processes. Early selection theorists argue that all extraneous information is filtered out at an early stage and is ignored completely. The brain has limited capacity to deal with all the stimuli surrounding the object. From

Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘Her First Ball’ introduces us to Leila, a country girl on her way to her first ball with her cousins, the Sheridan sisters. A range of language features convey Leila’s attitude of naive and excitement as the ball begins, and her transition to a young woman who is more socially experienced and mature by the end of the story. The story conveys the message that loss of innocence is an inevitable and vital part of the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

The sensory channels provide us with a huge amount of information, therefore in order to concentrate not all the information can be processed. Selective attention refers to the mechanism whereby mental processing is focused on a specific stimulus. Much psychological research has tried to uncover how attention is managed. This essay will focus specifically on the ‘early’ versus ‘late’ selection theory controversy. The basis of this debate stems from Cherry’s (1953) dichotic listening experiments. An early selection model, such as Broadbent’s Filter theory suggests information is discarded early in the stream of processing. Conversely Deutsch and Deutsch (1963) late selection model proposes unattended information is processed at

The Gestalt psychology, maintained that when people perceive sensory elements their tendency is to see things in terms for the entire form or pattern rather than as individual parts. Identify and describe these basic principles of perceptual organization from the Gestalt perspective; figure- ground, similarity, proximity, and closure.

Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘Her First Ball’ introduces us to Leila, a country girl on her way to her first ball with her cousins, the Sheridan sisters. A range of language features convey Leila’s attitude of naive and excitement as the ball begins, and her transition to a young woman who is more socially experienced and mature by the end of the story. The story conveys the message that loss of innocence and youthful fantasy is an inevitable and vital part of the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Schemas are mental frameworks representing one’s knowledge of and assumptions about the world. They can be thought as a broad organising principle that serves as a guide for interpreting new information about the self and the environment and solving problems. In other words, schemas guide the perception and interpretation of life events. Beck defined a schema as “a structure for screening, coding, and evaluating the stimuli that impinge on the organism. It is the mode by which the environment is broken down and organized into its many psychologically relevant facets. On the basis of the matrix of schemas, the individual is able to orient himself in relation to time and space and to categorize and interpret his experiences in a meaningful way”.

Our world is an immensely vast place. It is a place in which great clockworks of life govern everything from the largest interdependent “network” to the smallest details. As humans, we have evolved to perceive the world primarily through visual stimuli. In terms of intricacy and the area of the brain dedicated, our visual sense is the most well-developed sensory system. Our eyes are adapted so that they focus on objects both near and far through the contraction and relaxation of the ciliary muscle (Kaufman, Levin, Alm). However, we cannot focus on everything at the same time. This process of focus is selective as we can pay attention to and process only so much information at once (Chen, Choi). As a result, humans are able to process some visual stimuli but may completely fail to regard other details, be they minute or monumental. This failure is described as “inattentional blindness”, and it can have several real-world implications in our everyday lives.

In order to answer the second question, the present study has employed the schema theory from the realm of social cognition, but of course without separating itself from the concept of thematic perspectivization. Crucially, the three different types of schema, person, self-, and role, were theoretically and analytically presented to be compatible with the three components of thematic perspectivization: perspectivizee, perspectivizer, and perspectivized, respectively. In the data analysis, new information, appearing as part of Rheme structure, proved to linguistically mark or cue related schemas; hence, the principle of meta-schematic information can be said to be inseparable from thematic perspectivization both in theory and in practice. Indeed, the information about the

We categorise all physical objects and motor activities we come across in our everyday life and we make decisions based on those categories. “Without the ability to categorise, we could not function at all, either in the physical world or in our social and intellectual lives. An understanding of how we categorise is central to any understanding of how we think and how we function, and therefore central to an understanding of what makes us human”. (Lakoff 1987: 6) Although traditional Aristotelian view on categories provides answers that differ from the recent research, both classical and cognitive theories see categorisation as crucial to understanding how human beings make sense of experience and how they communicate. Categorization is basic to human thought, perception, action, and speech. It is