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Traits of Perception and Personality

The document discusses the process of perception. It defines perception as involving receiving sensory stimuli, selecting and organizing that input, interpreting it to give it meaning, checking the interpretation against the situation, and reacting. Perception is influenced by characteristics of the perceiver, the perceived object or event, and the environment. The perceptual process involves the perceiver receiving input, selecting, organizing, interpreting, checking, and reacting to the perceived object or situation.

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Traits of Perception and Personality

The document discusses the process of perception. It defines perception as involving receiving sensory stimuli, selecting and organizing that input, interpreting it to give it meaning, checking the interpretation against the situation, and reacting. Perception is influenced by characteristics of the perceiver, the perceived object or event, and the environment. The perceptual process involves the perceiver receiving input, selecting, organizing, interpreting, checking, and reacting to the perceived object or situation.

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16 source Traits

UNSTABLE
moody Touchy

anxious Restless

rigid Aggressive

sober Exitable

pesimistic Changeable

reserved Impulsive

unsociable Optimistic

quiet active

INTROVERTED EXTROVERTED
passive sociable

Careful outgoing

Thoughtful Talkative

Peaceful responsive

Controlled easy going

Reliable lively

Even tempered careful

Calm leadership

STABLE
Perception
.. is the process of becoming aware of
situations, of adding meaningful
associations to sensations
.. the process of receiving, selecting,
organizing, interpreting, checking, and
reacting to sensory stimuli or data
A process by which individuals organize
and interpret their sensory impressions in
order to give meaning to their
environments
.. an individual receives information about
his environment seeing, hearing, feeling,
tasting and smelling-perceptual process
their functioning is affected by three class
of variables:
1. Objects or events being perceived
2. Environment in which perception occurs
3. The individual doing the perception

Perceptual process
PERCEIVER
1 2 3
RECEIVING SELECTING ORGANISING

PERCEIVED
OBJECT

6 5 4

REACTING CHECKING INTERPRETING

SITUATION
The process
Selected
Received
Organized &
Interpreted to make meaningful to you
Perception is the result of interactions of
various senses such as:
Feeling
Seeing-light energy-eye as sensor
Hearing
Smelling
Tasting
Interpretation of sensory data-perception
Detecting presence of a stimuli-sensation
Perception is an individual process
all that glitters is not gold
Things are not what they seem
People behave on the basis of what they
perceive reality to be and not necessarily as
what reality is.
Depends upon characteristics of the
a. perceiver
b. perceived
c. situation
Perceiver-needs values, experience &
attitudes
Perceived-Appearance, communication &
personal behaviour

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