Social Perception

QUESTION: As a manager in an organisation, discuss how your study of perception contributes to your understanding of behaviour of people in your organisation.

First impressions, whether positive or negative, can play a critical role in someone’s judgement of other people. Stereotypes can cause a rush to judgement leading to an inaccurate conclusion. There are six common errors in judgement that can affect your critical thinking process (Bethel University, 2013).

As previously stated, social class has an overreach impact on one’s life. Every social class has specific stereotypes about education, income, and suitability for employment positions. If an individual is able to perceive another person’s social class through facial cues, then a person’s first impression, whether consciously or unconsciously given, is one’s social class. Most people attempt to groom their first impression to accommodate the surrounding situation, such as a college student dressing professionally for a job interview. In this situation, first impressions are meant to give a potential employer an unbiased picture of who the interviewee is as a person. If the first impression the employer receives is one’s social class, due

Recommendations The data collected from the police encounter survey has given me the information needed to select the type of intergroup perception policy option I believe will work best to alleviate the issues of negative perceptions, negative encounters, and negative stereotypes. The police moving back into the communities they work in will be the best option. In previous years police were required to live in the community in which they worked, this was a great way to ensure that they made positive interactions with the people in the community because they knew that they had to return to this same block to lay their head down at night. This became an issue when police began to complain that their safety was not being considered. People they once arrested were approaching them, but the question at hand was; were these people in the wrong or did you wrongfully arrest them. This began to cause commotion; I do believe that a police officer is less likely to commit crimes against citizens when they know they have to come back to that area; which is why I recommended this through the policy intergroup perceptions. Police officers

The group communication norms were enforced by each other within the groups I surveyed. No one particular individual had the power or status to enforce the communication norms and if they did it did not show per the survey results. Many of the groups I learned about through my surveys had one thing in common and that was, the groups did not have a leader in the sense many wanted all members to participate and felt if the group had a leader then others might not continue their participation as they were very worried about the group and fairness to all members. That has not been my experience though in groups I have a participated in. For example, I had the opportunity in being a part of a panel for children toys. Within this group there was

Person perception is influenced by many social and cognitive biases that shape our impression of others. Social cognition is how people gather information, process it, and apply it in their social situations.The cognitive process plays a significant role in shaping many of our social interactions. This is evident when we hear the case of Tony. Tony was able to convince people he was insane much easier than he could convince them he was not.

Individual, societal, and cultural factors play an important role with how we perceive, communicate, and build relationships with others. These factors also influence the language we speak, the food we eat, and even the social class that we belong to. With this in mind, we must come to realize that perception varies from person to person, instead of showing prejudice towards others for not sharing common beliefs or moral values.

The world is found to be more complex than what the stereotypes suggest. A stereotype is an oversimplified conception that is put on someone because of their style, gender, and all the other categories that exist. Stereotypes play a major role in the social world because they are used to simplify the thinking of one when meeting a new person. People are much deeper than the label they are given. Stereotypes exist because judging someone is much easier than getting to actually have a conversation together and bond.

For Germans, "Gemuetlichkeit"- a nice and comfortable home is highly valued and cleanliness and tidiness are valued. Many Germans consider that a person should remove their shoes before entering a home.

In today’s quick society, people often base their idea of who someone is without any actual information about the person. Most times it is done in order to ‘save time’ - therefore causing people to create ideas about who a person is. It is not uncommon for people to jump to conclusions based off their personal experience and that can shape how they perceive the world around them. It causes some to stereotype people based on what their appearance may be, how they speak, or their posture. Within these situations, people may have been primed early on in life so they may not take the time to work past those assumptions about what they perceive. However, because people may have experienced certain things in life, their perception of a situation

In this article, your social life can be like a hedgehog or a fox. A hedgehog is when you know a few people but you know them deeply. On the other hand, the fox knows many people but do not know that much about them. In other words, the hedgehog does more research on the background on the people close to them. A fox does not care about the background on the people close to them or in their life. I consider myself a hedgehog because I do not get a lot of friends but the ones I do have I know a lot about them. “The hedgehog probes deeply and narrowly.” (Haag, pg. 399)

I agree with your solution to incentivize employees with social recognition awards. As already stated, social recognition awards will boost morale and give an individual as sense of pride, especially if presented amongst peers. Once an individual has received a social recognition award, it motivates the individual strive for more. Even more, the peers of the recipient will aspire to be recognized as well. Furthermore, social recognition awards can have an indelible effect and feels more tangible than money, because the sentiment from award can make an individual feel validated within an organization.

Social norms determine what we think about the behaviors of people. (pg. 312) What is accepted by society as norm is changing and acceptable behavior is now being accepted because of life circumstances such as stress. (pg. 213) “Emile Durkheim believed that under conditions of rapid cultural change, there would be an absence of common social norms and controls, a state he called anomie.” (pg. 313) I agree with the functionalist perspective because in today’s society we are glamorized by the constant trend of the use of alcohol. Music videos, television shows, movies, and commercial promote that joy of being rich and famous is the leisure of drinking alcohol. More music artist has promoted their preferred brand of alcohol and even made their own alcohol. Popular shows the fun it is to be drunk and this is brain washing to our youth. The popular kids drink these popular brand of alcohol. Alcohol is legal and cannot be monitored for consumption. It is the responsibility of the individual. Age requirements only restrict purchase not consumption, so it can and still is an access to minors. Mass media is not restricted to its viewers. What the viewers want to see in mass media is what is trending. Mass media is based on consumer’s view. It is a norm that is widely accepted and not defended in way that will affect the serious issues that result in the over consumption and under age consumption of alcohol. This will be an ongoing battle because over-consumption cannot be enforced.

In the field of Social Psychology, numerous studies have been made about different types of behavior and what causes humans to act a certain way. There are also different specific types of behavior that have been studied, such as aggression. One important study made about signs and effects of aggression would be Stanford University’s Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s study of prisoners and guards in a simulated prison. His research was conducted along with two of his graduate assistants by the name of Craig Haney and Curtis Banks. Their research was done in 1971. Zimbardo had selected a group of college students to perform the experiment on, half of the students were the “guards” where they would act and impersonate themselves as if they were actual

Thousands of people around the word are prejudice against other people because of their race or how they act or many other things. I believe that being prejudice to people is not the right thing I think that people should be nice to each other equally because everyone is your family. People that are racist to other think that they are cool but the person that they are making fun of will be bigger than that person someday. People should not judge a book by its cover because you don’t know what is deep inside it.