This page explains the perception process, highlighting how we select, organize, and interpret information. Key points include the influence of salience on selection and the importance of visual and a...This page explains the perception process, highlighting how we select, organize, and interpret information. Key points include the influence of salience on selection and the importance of visual and aural stimuli, needs, interests, and expectations. Information organization relies on patterns of proximity, similarity, and difference, while interpretation uses schemata based on past experiences and knowledge.
The page discusses how people make judgments about others, often based on minimal exposure, and how these judgments can be surprisingly accurate and predictive, such as in political elections. It delv...The page discusses how people make judgments about others, often based on minimal exposure, and how these judgments can be surprisingly accurate and predictive, such as in political elections. It delves into the psychological processes involved in perception and attribution, explaining how we tend to attribute behaviors to internal or external factors, often leading to perceptual errors like the fundamental attribution error and self-serving bias.
