InSearchoftheChild.pptVIP

Perception and Understanding Lesson Objectives Why perceptions differ among people? Why do social roles affect perception? What is the self-serving bias? How do perceptions shape our views of others? Should we try to read others’ minds? How can we sharpen our perceptions? Perception Process We notice and make sense of experience and stimuli around us. Perception: an active process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting people, objects, events, situations…etc. Active Three interrelated processes: selection, organization, interpretation (all blend into one another) Examples in daily life… Se