Perception and Social Cognition

📋 Course Outline

1. Foundations of Perception
2. Social Perception and Identity
3. Perceptual Factors and Barriers
4. Selective Perception Biases
5. Attribution Theory and Biases
6. Stereotypes and Social Categorization
7. Stereotype Effects and Expectations

📖 1. Foundations of Perception

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Perception : a cognitive process that enables people to interpret and understand their environment
• Physical perception : the process of gathering information through the five senses and adding meaning to it

★ Must-know

• 🔄 Perception proceeds through three stages:
  1. Selective attention
  2. Organization and categorization
  3. Interpretation

Further detail

• Perception is a translation and distortion mechanism that is unique to each individual because people perceive the world around them differently.

💡 Memory Hook

Select → organize → interpret

📖 2. Social Perception and Identity

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Social perception : the process by which people come to understand one another

📌 Personality is a psychological question, whereas identity is a sociological question connected to perception.