disagreeing with that judgment. This can become a self-fulfillingprophecyin that if someone feels the other is intelligent, that person reacts by acting intelligent. On the other hand, when one person treats another with contempt, the target of that perception may react by feeling contempt for...
The field of engineering is not well understood by many people. Children as well as some adults - especially in the rural areas - have no idea what engineering is all about. They do not have role model engineers to look up to. They know what teachers and doctors do, but not engineers....
Psychology’s relentless quest for understanding is firmly anchored in the bedrock of empirical research methodologies, facilitating a systematic journey into the depths of human cognition and behavior. In this exploration, a rich assortment of methods comes into play, each serving as a unique lens t...
while performing random unfamiliar actions, a person feels uncertainty which results in a state of stress. When a person is forced to do an action, he feels performing in a constrained state and thus unnatural. In a different situation, when the person performs an action intuitively, he ...
Process of Perception Reception: In this process, a person receives the information through stimuli. Selection: This is governed by two types of factors: External factors: These are size, intensity, proximity, motion and novelty. Internal factors: These are attitude, motives, experiences, interests...
Because the MBTI is subjective and choices are made based on self-perception, people inevitably add an ideal personality to the test, prompting people to look for value in what they do and have done. MBTI results tell us more than "w...
Social perception is an individual’s way of making order of his environment. Perceiving a person or an object as such can greatly determine the individual’s actions. A dark alleyway, for example, will always be seen as a dangerous part of the street and will almost always be avoided. ...
Another common form of manipulation is gaslighting, where the manipulator deliberately distortsthe target’s perception of reality to make them doubt their own sanity or judgment. This caninvolve denying or distorting facts, minimizing or exaggerating events, or using selectivememory to paint a ...
First, perception is how we think about a particular person, situation, event, or anything for that matter based on the stimuli we receive and the feelings and thoughts that we have about that entity. Mind you, the entity in question might or might not be what we perceive them to...
Perception is a general term for the body's recognition of external signals from the environment. Haptic perception refers to the way a person can gain information about his or her environment through touch. It involves skin sensors and receptors in other parts of the body like muscles, which ...