...1 Sensory Perception 2 Sensory Perceptions Sensory data is an exploration of collected abilities formed through the senses of observation throughout a person’s life span. The ability to analyze and categorize images, sounds, tastes and touch sparks the likes and dislikes of gathered information. In other words, accuracy and inaccuracy takes form in what a person perceive about the collected data in that moment. Even though, perceptions of information can change at any given time, there is the ability to memorize certain behaviors and information. Furthermore, one simple reason is because as a person evolves, senses are mature enough to form decision based on learned, environmental data Accuracy of sensory information is a perception of a person’s belief pattern. For example, how a person view his or her religion as being the accurate path to the heavens or God. As mentioned before, often than not what a person believes to be accurate is their reality to learned information. However, there are no advances for achieving the right conclusion on any situation but there are derived ambitions to reach desired results. Should a person only perceive their conclusion of information to known accuracy? Most likely not because there are alternatives and differences of gathered data to reach a conclusion. Three reasons for believing in the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information are not limited to 1.) Environmental cues, meaning the cultural views and environment that we have...
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...Can your mental models about your world both assist and limit your perceptions when you meet a person for the first time? (Senge, 2006) advocates the notion that mental models are the images, assumptions and stories which we carry in our minds of ourselves other people, institutions and every aspect of the world. I believe this to be a true statement when it comes to way in which we interact and reciprocate with a person we have met for the first time. It is the ideas we form consciously or unconsciously from our own experiences and which either lead or limit our activities and thoughts through various channels. Our world is so complex that when we meet a new person for the first time our initially inclined to try and make sense of who the new person actually is. All representations of what I perceive to be reality explain the cause and effects, of my understanding in its entirety of my expectations with regard to certain things which produce meaningful events, whilst allowing me to behave in certain ways. Mental models profoundly influence our lives on an individual level like a coloured lense becoming more saturated overtime (Senge, 2006), I think this statement is definitely advocated through the notion of perception in its simplest definition being a process allowing us to experience the world around us (Cherry, 2014). People are probably the most important feature in the world around me; my perceptions are something that is shaped by many factors ultimately affecting...
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...Perception and Attention Paper Psych/560 June 3, 2013 Prof. Pitt Perception and Attention People will perceive the world in different ways. For example, two people may look at a cloud, and they both may say they see two different things. One may say they see a rabbit whereas the other person may say they see a dog. Perception gives an individual the ability to have insight into any given situation. This is also how an individual can gain knowledge or intuition. On the other hand, there is attention, which gives an individual to ability to focus mentally. According to Robinson-Riegler & Robinson-Riegler (2008) Perception aids in a person’s information process. Attention aids the impact of information in a person's long-term memory. This paper will define the concept of perception and the perceptual organizational process. The paper will also define attention and the process of attention as well as explain the relationship between perception and attention. Define the Concept of Perception Cherry (2013), “Perception is our sensory experience of the world around us and involves both the recognition of environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli” (What Is Perception?). This process allows us to gain information about the properties and elements of our environment that we need for survival...
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...Social Perception was described as interpreting information about other people. If you feel that you are familiar with a person, you perceive to have a better understanding of that person intention. The pattern of thinking can affect a person's perception of others. The social contexts, in which you meet someone, can play a large part in whether the perception of someone will be positive or negative. How we perceive others is dependent on a significant number of factors; which are classified as internal and external. Internal factors include physical appearance, and verbal and nonverbal communication e.g facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, body position and movement, touch, and gaze. External factors include the target and the situation. The target of the object in question determines perception because attention is a prerequisite of perception. Secondly, the situation influences how we look at things and how we perceive them. A person who is shouting because of anger for example cannot be perceived to be short-tempered based on this but a person who has met them for the first time may be tempted to think so. Stereotyping is another perspective that influences perception; such that a person is perceived on the basis of the group to which one belongs to. Stereotypes refer to characteristics associated with a certain group of people such that people perceive all members of such a group to possess such characteristics or behavior. There are also factors that...
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...Why are the perceptions you have of your skills usually different from the perceptions that others have of your skills Why Do Differences in Perception Occur? The way you sense the world—the way you see, hear, smell, touch, and taste—is subjective, uniquely your own. Nobody else sees the world the way you do, and nobody experiences events exactly as you do. The uniqueness of human experience is based largely on differences in perception—“the process of becoming aware of objects and events from the senses” (DeVito, 1986) Perception is subjective, active, and creative. Active perception means that your mind selects, organizes, and interprets that which you sense. So each person is a different video camera, and each person aims the camera at different things; each person’s lens is different; each person sees different colours; and each person’s audio picks up different sounds. Perception is subjective in that you interpret what you sense; you make it your own, and you add to and subtract from what you see, hear, smell, and touch. Subjective perception is your uniquely constructed meaning attributed to sensed stimuli. So, why do differences in perception occur? Differences in perception may be the result of physiological factors, people’s past experiences and roles, their cultures and co-cultures, and their present feelings and circumstances. Physiological Factors You are not physiologically identical to anyone else. People differ from each other in sex, height...
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...The senses: Taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell. Everything we know is based on our perception of our senses and our knowledge of the world. Everything we know of perceptually in our brain’s memory bank is built upon the senses. Our senses pick up information and send it to our brain to be processed into something tangible. We use our senses to prove what we are told and we unconsciously depend upon our senses to function. Someone tells us a train is coming and it is near; we immediately want proof of it. The first instinct we have is to look for it and if we don’t see it we listen for it. If we cannot see or hear it then more than likely we are probably not going to believe that the train is near and dismiss the person as being misinformed. Our senses help us to make ‘sound” judgments as to whether we believe in something, if we like or dislike something, and if we trust or fear something. Without our senses we could not function. Businesses use sensory analysis, a technique to test or analyze our senses for their marketing. A restaurant uses sensory analysis to find out if their products are feasible to market by analyzing the effect a food product has upon their clients. The International Organization for Standardization has set procedures for sensory analysis “to conduct sensory evaluations under constant, controlled conditions with a minimum of distractions, to reduce the effect that psychological factors and physical conditions can have on human judgment”...
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...COM 120, Test 2 Chapter 4: Perception and Interpersonal Communication 1. The stages of perception are: a. Sense, organize, interpret-evaluate, store in memory, retrieve b. Retrieve, interpret-evaluate, sense, organize, store in memory c. Organize, store in memory, sense, interpret-evaluate, retrieve d. Retrieve, store in memory, proximity similarity, interpretation. 2. Our senses are bombarded with stimuli. Consequently, we a. Look for similarities b. Select and attend to those which meet our immediate needs c. Systematically process all of it d. Organize it just like everyone else does 3. We make judgements about others on the basis of all the following EXCEPT: a. Comparison b. Proximity c. Similarity d. Contrast 4. Relying on early information for a general idea of what a person is to like is also called: a. Stereotypes b. Our first impressions c. Prophecies we make d. Implicit theories 5. Giving subtle cues or hints about how we expect the other person to act is also called: a. Stereotypes b. Implicit theories c. Self-fulfilling prophecies d. Our first impressions 6. First impressions are all of the following EXCEPT: a. Unjust b. Inevitable c. Highly accurate d. A filter 7. You can increase your accuracy in...
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...GERARDO PEREZ-GARCIA 20120415 Y33-41-8925 DEP2000 REACTION PAPER WHAT IS PERCEPTION? Perception is our sensory experience of the world around us and involves both the recognition of environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli. Through the perceptual process, we gain information about properties and elements of the environment that are critical to our survival. Perception not only creates our experience of the world around us; it allows us to act within our environment. Perception includes the five senses; touch, sight, taste smell and taste. It also includes what is known as proprioception, a set of senses involving the ability to detect changes in body positions and movements. It also involves the cognitive processes required to process information, such as recognizing the face of a friend or detecting a familiar scent. When it comes down to our understanding of the world it is ultimately the result of our sensual means of perception. In other terms, can we really trust the truth, or anything that we know of scientifically? What does it mean to know something is true and also why it is important to distinguish between what you know and do not or cannot know? It is very difficult to be able to believe everything you hear, unless you experience it for yourself. Let’s say that perception is like viewing through goggles. If the tint of the goggles is green, the world appears green; if it’s black the world too becomes black. You want to see poverty, you...
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...different ways and should be considered when analyzing his theories. The first refutation that Augustine refuted was the principle of noncontradiction. This principle basically stated that a both a contradiction as well as a proposition cannot be true; it must be only one or the other. I believe that the contradiction of the stick being straight and not straight shows how a direct contradiction can easily take place. Example, a person says “I’m on a strict diet of not eating meat”, yet the person stating this claim while inside of a steak house eating a steak. The second refutation is Augustine’s holding the act of doubting. The act of doubting shows a person’s existence as something which is very certain: “from the fact I am doubting, it follows automatically that I am (Descartes). When you begin to question whether or not what you are seeing is truly in fact something that you see, you are allowing the act of doubt to enter your mind. The third refutation in which St. Augustine refuted was sense perception. According to Augustine, Sense perception gives away a rudimentary sort of knowledge. He went on to explain how deception when it...
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...In life every person was created in their own unique way; so is it possible for two separate individuals to be the same in every way? You could say identicle twins right, but even twins have their own ways of perceiving things therefore it causes them to have different views on life.I do not believe that two people think exactly the same; they may share characteristics or agree with the same things that in some way link the two, but overall their thought process cannot match 100%. This has not been proven nor have I tried to investigate my theories but, I do know that perception and beliefs play a big role in ones thought process. They are critical when making decisions as big as deciding if you chose the right person marry or as small as what kind of meat you will have for dinner. As I researched a little I came upon the term “Morphic Resonance” which According to R. Carrol, (1994-2016) “Morphic Resonance is a term coined by Rupert Sheldrake in his 1981 book A New Science of Life, he uses the expression to refer to what he thinks is "the basis of memory in nature....the idea of mysterious telepathy-type interconnections between organisms and of collective memories within species." He describes it as a kind of memory in things determined not by their inherent natures, but by repetition. He also describes MR as something which is transmitted via "morphogenetic fields."(Carroll, 1994-2016) What I got from reading about this came down to someone capability to be programmed to think...
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...How Demonstrative Communication Affects Perception BCOM275 May 10, 2012 How Demonstrative Communication Affects Perception Ever notice that when an individual is passionate about what that person is saying, hands and arms wave all about, emphasizing a point and conveying enthusiasm, or ever realize that when a person does not believe in what one is saying, body language echoes these feelings and becomes inexpressive (Lieberman, 1998)? When one mentions the word “communication”, the preliminary thought that comes to mind is almost certainly speech or a structure of verbal communication. Demonstrative communication involves utilizing senses other than hearing. Nonverbal modes of communication such as facial expression, body language, dress, and appearance are powerful devices for sending and receiving messages. These communication methods can be a substitute for a verbal message but frequently complement it to generate a complete message. Clothing and appearance can play a significant role in the perception of others. Years ago at a previous job, one author worked with an adolescent man who applied for a middle management position within the company. The employee was intelligent, hardworking, and personable. He never complained and his peers enjoyed his friendly demeanor. Unfortunately, despite these positive characteristics, this individual was not considered for the position he sought. This young man wore the same clothing several times a week. The clothing rarely...
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...Perception 1. Describe Jim’s self-concept. Jim is using a personal construct, or mental yardstick, to measure his intelligence and responsibility when he is discussing how he is performing in school (Wood, 2012). He compares himself to his father by claiming his father is brilliant and did not have any trouble in school versus himself who is struggling to pull C’s. Jim feels that no matter how hard he tries he will never be an A student because he is using a self-servicing bias that college is more difficult than when his father went to college and he has no control of the difficulty (Wood, 2012). Jim is attributing his grades to external forces, such as more difficult material, and believes that no matter how much studying he will not receive better grades. 2. Explain, using examples from the video and course concepts, how Jim’s self-concept impacted his interaction with his father. Was it positive or negative? Jim’s self-concept had a negative impact on his interaction with his father. Jim states that he does not know how to convince his parents that he is doing everything that he can do. Wood (2012) explains that perceiving another person as domineering can create a feeling of insecurity in ability to communicate. Jim could attribute his parent’s concern that he is spending too much time with friends and not enough time studying as domineering and may not feel comfortable explaining that he is doing the best that he can. Jim is using self-servicing bias in his communication...
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...ASSIGNMENT NO 1 PART A PERCEPTION IN SERVICE SECTOR INTRODUCTION: PERCEPTION IS AN INDIVIDUALS WINDOW TO THE WORLD. PERCEPTION IS AN ACTIVE PROCESS OF SELECTING,ORGANIZING,AND INTERPRETING PEOPLR,OBJECTS,EVENTS,SITUATIONS.IT MAY BE DEFINED A THE PROCESS OF SELECTION,ORGANIZATION, AND INTERPRETATION OF SENSATIONS TO PROVIDE EXPERIENCE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL. DEF :A PROCESS BY WHICH INDIVIDUALS SELECT, ORGANIZE AND INTEPRET THEIR SENSORY IMPRESSIONS TO GIV MEANING TO THEIR ENVIROMENT;PERCEPTION CAN BE ADD FROM REALITY. PERCEPTION DEFINES REALITY: OBJECTIVE REALITY: WHAT TRULY EXISTS IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD TO THE BEST TO ABILITIES TO MEASURE IT.? PERCEIVED REALITY: WHAT INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES THROUGH ONE OR MORE SENSES. THE KEY UNDERSTANDING IS TO RECOGNIZE THAT IS A UNIQUE INTERPRETATION OF THE SITUATION, IN SHORTB IT IS A COGNITIVE PROCESS THAT SHOWS A UNIQUE PICTURE THAT MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM REALITY. PERCEPTION CAN BE DESCRIBED AS THREE PHASE PROCESS OF SELECTING, ORGANIZING, AND INTERPRETING INFORMATION. INTERPRET ORGANIZE SELECT FIG:ELEMENTS OF PERCEPTION IMPORTANCE OF PERCEPTION: * IT HELPS IN SHAPING PERSONALITY. * INTERPERTS WORLD AROUND US. * IT DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN WORLD AND REALITY. * TO UNDERSTAND CONTROL HUMAN SENSE AND BEHAVOUR. PERCEPTION PROCESS: IT IA AN ACTIVE PROCESS, PERCEIVER PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE.THE PERCEIVER ATTEND INPUTS, INTERPRETS THE MEANINH OF THE CONSTUCTION; ACTION INPUUTS INTERPERTATION ...
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...and intended population. I will also describe how this tool enhances the assessment phase of the nursing process and the quality of care delivered by the nurse. Lastly, I will apply these tools to the vulnerable older population chosen from my Self Awareness paper. The three assessment tools that I selected were: The Spiritual Well-Being Scale, Derogatis Stress Profile, and the Perceived Stress Scale. The Spiritual Well-Being Scale This Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) is an easy assessment tool, designed for adults to self-assess their perceived spiritual well-being. There are twenty questions answered by paper and pencil that usually take between 10 to 15 minutes to complete. Based on the results the individual can measure their perception of spiritual quality of life ("The Spiritual Well-Being Scale", 2009). The scale is divided into two subdivisions; Religious Well-Being Scale (RWB) and the Existential Well-Being Scale (EWB). Ten questions are directed at the person’s religious well-being. This assesses...
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...J.Alfred Prufrock and Social Perception Nature versus Nurture is an age old debate that has taxed the minds of many. It begs to question whether an individual’s personal experiences or innate genetic attributes are the primary basis for an individual’s behavioral traits. Both sides of the argument provide strong evidence to support their claims, but to say experiences in life don’t influence a person’s behavior is a bit of a stretch. One can’t say that a high school student, or at least the vast majority, doesn’t let their peers’ actions and opinions play some role in their perception of how to act according to the social “norm”. Fear of being considered an outsider and social stigmatization drives many people to evaluate, and reevaluate every decision they consider. Often times we let these fears overwhelm us and inhibit any further progression beyond fantasizing how the scenario would play out. Even though there are a vast number of social dynamics that influence an individual’s actions and perception, we must recognize that these interactions are a part of a social structure that can be challenged, if we dare to explore the unknown. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, T.S. Eliot uses a dramatic monologue to address and illustrate many common issues revolving around social perceptions. One such issue is a common theme addressed at the very beginning and mentioned throughout this literary work—reputation. The Epigraph depicts a conversation between Dante and Guido...
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