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TOPIC:
Person Perception
SUBTOPICS:
a.
b.
c.
d.
What is Person Perception?
Factors influencing Perception
Perceptual Process
Perceptual Grouping
Objectives: At the end of the report, participants
are expected to:
1. To know what information we extract
when we see other people and how this
interpretation influences our subsequent
behavior
2. To analyze how we interpret what we
see
References:
1. A Power point Presentation about Person
Perception
http://www.slideshare.net/PreethamPreet
u/perception
2. Blog about Person Perception
Copyright © 2010 by John D. Mayer
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thepersonality-analyst/201011/personperception-and-the-scientific-judgmentpersonality
3. Person Perception by Kendra Cherry
http://psychology.about.com/od/socialpsy
chology/a/person-perception.htm
4. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology by Bargh, Chen and Burrows
(1996)
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/vie
w/document/obo-9780199828340/obo9780199828340-0136.xml
Name: Lhyca Moral
Year & Section: II-10 BVE
Grade:
Strategy or activity related to the topic:
I THINK YOU ARE __________
Direction for the activity:
1. Ambush a 2or 3 unknown person
of the whole class with different
physical aspects and social roles
and norms
2. Bluff the whole class by reversing
their identity of roles.
3. Ask them to write their first
impression in a post it paper (I
will give) and put it board near
the person.
4. After that ,I will reveal they real
identity.
Questions to ask after the activity:
1. What is your basis, while
writing your impressions?
2. Are there big changes with
impression and reality?
3. How impression influences
our way of dealing with
others?
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4. Cite some experiences that
your person perception to
one person is to different
from he/she really are and
you get conscientious feels
for thinking like that.
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Perception -The study of perception
is concerned with identifying the
process through which we interpret
and organize sensory information to
produce our conscious experience of
objects and object relationship.
Perception- A process by which
individuals organize and interpret
their sensory impressions in order to
give meaning to their environment.
Processing, Interpreting, selecting
and organizing information.
Perceptual Process
 Sensation
 Selection
 Organization
 Translation
Receiving Stimuli (Internal &
External)
Selecting Stimuli
 External Factors
a. Nature
b. Size
c. Location
d. Contrast
e. Repetition
f. Movement
g. Similarity
 Internal Factors
a. Learning
b. Needs
c. Interest
d. Age
Organizing
a. Figure Background
b. Perceptual Grouping
Response
*Covert
*Overt
a. Attitudes
a.Behavior
b. Motivations
c. Feelings
Factors influencing Perception
 Factors in the perceiver
• Attitudes
• Motives
• Interests
• Experience
• Expectations
 Factors in the situation
• Time
• Work Setting
• Social Setting
 Factors in the Target
• Novelty
• Motion
• Sounds
• Size
• Background
• Proximity
• Similarity
PERCEPTUAL GROUPING Our
tendency to group several
individual stimuli into a
meaningful and recognizable
pattern. It is very basic in
nature and largely it seems to
be inborn.
 Some factors
underlying grouping
are:
-continuity
-closure
-proximity
-similarity
Person Perception:
Making Judgments About Others
Organizational Behavior
QUOTATION: WE DON’T
SEE THINGS AS THEYARE,
WE SEE THINGS AS WE
ARE.”
-UNKNOWN
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