MGT 350 chapter 5
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- perception
- how people recieve, interpret, and organize information from their environment
- stages of perceptual process
- attention and selection, organization, interpretation, retrieval
- schemas
- how the brain organizes the selective screening information that took place in the attention stage
- self schema
- info abot a persons own appearance, behavior, and personality.
- person schemas
- the way people sort other people into categories or groups (sometimes stereotypes)
- script schema
- the knowledge of a person that can decide the appropriate sequence of events in a given situation
- halo effet
- when one attribute of a person develops an overall impression of them
- selective perception
- the tendency to single out for attention those aspects of a situation or person that reinforce or emerge and are consistent wit hexisting beliefs, values, and needs.
- projection
- the assignment of personal attrubutes to other individuals.
- contrast effects
- when one persons characteristics are contrasted with anothers who they were just with whose characteristics are not the same
- self fulfilling prophecy
- the tendency to find in another person that which they expected to find
- attribution theory
- trying to find the cause of he event and assess responsibility for outcomes and assess the personal qualities of the people involved.
- fundamental attribution error
- underestimating the influence of situational factors and overestimating the influence of personal factors when evaluating soebodys behavior
- self serving bias
- denying responsibility for problems of your own actions and taking responsibility for success.