Week 3

Part 1

Well to start things off Miss Jackie was gone for the week so we had a sub all week. We focused on perception. We learned about the three process of perception: selective, organizing, and interpreting. We looked at a lot of random pictures that you can see more than one object. Some of us could see more than one and many could only see one. We compared how each of us saw the picture and how it was moving also. My favorite is the moving objects that are not really moving. It’s crazy how your eyes see things. The same size illusion ones were pretty crazy too. I didn’t think they were the same size. We then got in pairs and did perception questionnaire. I was with Dayle and I asked her: Do you believe you can always trust your first impression. She said no because it can change, people change, and they may be just having a bad day. We then started talking about stereotypes, how we judge people. One of the quotes from the book says “ A personal construct is a “mental yardstick” we use to measure a person or situation along a bipolar dimension of judgments” (Kelly, 1995). The next day we talked about ways in improve your interpersonal perception. I said not to assume things ask more questions, and try harder to look at perception like this. I guess in a way care more. We had to do self- disclosure, which I didn’t really like because its school and not a time for things like that. Yah a lot of people just said I don’t like my sister, or I don’t like country or something like that, but I didn’t like that activity. I don’t like to share with strangers. We watched a video at the end about racism, I thought it was an okay video and learned a few things. I didn’t agree with a lot of things on it because I think when a person is racist most likely they are not going to change. They have a reason for it and won’t change. But again that is stereotyping J

Part2

My physiology probably comes out some days. Like when im tired or stressed I want to be left alone. People annoy me and I probably come off as a bitch but I’m really not. So for me I probably need to practice on when im tired or stressed to keep a positive attitude. Age I don’t compare a lot at work. Because I know when an old man comes in he is going to be a lot more picky and not want to change. He is going to want that product and nothing else. He is then going to be rude and get mad because we no longer carry the product he wants. Culture and social location is a hard one for me to think of. I guess I could compare to my work again because I am in a fashion store, most men would not sell our products very well. Although we do have our feed and tack side and men do treat us women different because they think we don’t know what we are talking about because we are women. Which can be really frustrating at times and you just have to keep a smile. Roles I have to be interested in something to pay attention or else I am thinking what else I have to do today and what a waste of time and money something is. Cognitive abilities is how you think of someone; like nice or not nice. That is not a very big range but that is how I think of people usually. The last one self I see myself as positive but others may see me as negative, its just how people see things and in everybodys mind it will be different, so really its not that big of a deal..

Part 3

Well when u compare other people of course it will be diffrent, because everybody has diffrent opinions. when i looked at others we all had some things in common but most of it was a little diffrent on how we looked at certain subjects..