The Theory Of Perception And Knowing

I really enjoyed reading the chapter about interpersonal perception. I didn’t realize until after reading chapter four there were so many different aspects to the interpersonal perception process. It was really interesting figuring out some of these interpersonal perception aspects that apply to my life. The three terms I would like to discuss in this paper are overattributing positively bias and negativity bias.

Everybody was born in different situations and with different personalities that makes our world colorful and complicated. However, the differences in viewing the world between people cause many problems which is relevant to a concept called perception. In this essay, the concept of perception will be described through academic definitions and knowledge also with practical examples. The main objective is to provide readers with a better on what perception is, why it is important to the study of Organization Behaviour (OB) and the effects and implications of it onto managers’ job.

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Perception checking is a cooperative approach to communication that provides accuracy instead of assuming our first interpretation is correct. It minimizes defensiveness through face saving and requires both nonverbal and verbal elements to match. The benefits of perception checking is to help us have a better understanding of a message, so both persons can mutually relate and to reduce conflict so we don 't jump to conclusions. In the perception process reality is constructed in two ways. The first order realities is physically observable qualities of a thing or situation. For example, if your friend calls you a “bone head”. On the other hand, second order realities cannot reside in objects or events but rather in our minds. It involves our attaching meaning to first order things or situations. For instance, your friend is being critical is an example of second order realities. Perception checking has three parts: description, interpretation, and clarification. Description is describing a behavior that was noticed. Interpretation is providing interpretations of the behavior, Lastly, ask for clarification from the person about the behavior and interpretations. These three parts are important because they help an individual how to prevent assuming something that is probably not the intention of the other person which is why clarification is needed in a situation like this. It is better to gather more information about the situation then to think the

Perception serves more than one purpose to the human experience. Wikipedia defines Perception as - the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment. This definition unfortunately describes only one of the services perception provides. I would like to offer instead the definition - Perception is a collection of data filters, some natural but most created by education and experience, which serve to shape and enforce limits on sensory and intellectual data that is considered to provide the individual a world view in which to operate within. Similar definitions yes, but the differences are critical.

Perception has a few definitions; the most frequently used definition is what we become aware of through our senses. However, perception is not just what our senses tell us, it is our reaction to the feelings we sense. Perception just happens; it is something we cannot control. The mind tells us how we feel before we even realize what is happening.

Social Perception is the process that allows us to interpret and understand our surroundings. (Overgaard, S., & Krueger, J. p. 395) Perception has a four-stage process: comprehension, encoding, storage, and response. With the first stage, we become aware of a situation or a person around us. The second step we take that new raw information and process it. Third stage, it is processed by our memory. Finally, we retrieve information from our memory bank and use those memories in part to make our decisions and judgments. (Kinici, p. 84).

We appear to rely on our senses in order to perceive the truth in terms of the world and the surroundings. Senses are the representation of

What exactly is an inappropriate relationship? It’s pretty self-explanatory, it’s a relationship that should not be happening between two or more people. It is a relationship that goes on beyond work. We live in a world where men and women work together. We live in a world where men and women work together who are married. So if two people mesh well and hang out together that doesn’t mean they are wrong or in an inappropriate relationship because if that’s the case then everyone is wrong, especially in the Army. Who are we to assume that something is going on between two people unless you catch them in the act? The problem with people nowadays is they are so quick to assume that two “good looking” people who are married are messing with each other without trying to understand their friendship.

The way that we think and feel about things profoundly affects the way we act in the world, so it is important to be able to recognize the feelings and thoughts that arise habitually in our lives.

Psychology is the study of human behavior. It is the scientific study of one’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior. (Ciccarelli & White, 2015) There are seven perspectives that psychology is fit into known as The Theoretical Perspectives. These perspectives include the psychoanalytical approach, the behavioral approach, the humanistic approach, the cognitive approach, the sociocultural approach, the psychological or neuropsychological approach, and finally the evolutionary approach.(Ciccarelli & White, 2015) Our focus for this paper is going to be on three of these perspectives. The first one will be the sociocultural approach, the second will be the humanistic approach, and the last will be the behavioral approach.(Ciccarelli & White, 2015)

In the book of Matthew, Jesus calls the Pharisees “blind guides,” or men who guided or taught from their self righteous customs instead of from the Spirit of the Law. The Pharisees blame shifted and refused to assist with the actual burdens they would not carry. But, in Proverbs, Solomon refers indirectly to the routine of someone that seeks reasons for glorifying God, “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise” (Proverbs 11:30). Therefore, as a disciple of Christ, who came to “seek and to save the lost” (Luke19:10), I ought to work to glorify God. Furthermore, in Evangelism Is, by Dave Early and David Wheeler, it states that our lives are to glorify God, because, “ultimately God gets the most glory, and we find the deepest fulfillment when our lives are

It can be said that psychology owes its lineage to depth psychologists who pioneered the field with bold assertions of an enigmatic influence in human behavior. Contemporary thought knows this force as the unconscious, and by contemporary we mean to say that the word itself is relatively new; to assume one can approach the unconscious only from the point of view that its concept is as new as the word itself ignores evidence to the contrary. Instead one must speak of the unconscious from the context of the totality of the human species and not from the confines of modern thought.