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• A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment?

  PERCEPTION
• Factors that affect perception are?

  SITUATION PERCEIVER TARGET
• Factors in the situation: The key factors in the situation category that impacts the perception are?

  TIME, WORK SETTING, SOCIAL SETTING
• It is associated with situation and is one critical factor that affects perception?

  TIME
• Peaceful WORK SETTING enhances the perceptive ability of an individual.
• Social surrounding related individuals, occasion, culture, etc., impact the perception?

  SOCIAL SETTING
• Factors affecting perceiver?

  ATTITUDE MOTIVES EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS
• Factors affecting target?

  NOVELTY MOTION SOUND SIZE BACKGROUND PROXIMITY SIMILARITY
• targets are more likely to be noticed than the targets observed in the past?

  NOVELTY
• They shape the way we see the target?

  MOTION SOUND SIZE
• a target is not looked at in isolation?

  BACKGROUND
• Objects that are close to each other tend to be perceived together?

  PROXIMITY
• Similar things need to be grouped together?

  SIMILARITY
• It suggests that perceivers try to “attribute” the observed behavior to a type of cause?

  ATTRIBUTION THEORY
• behavior is believed to be under the personal control of the individual?

  INTERNAL
• The person is forced into the behavior by outside events/causes?

  EXTERNAL
• Whether an individual displays different behaviors in different situations (the uniqueness of the act)?


  DISTINCTIVENESS
• Does everyone who faces a similar situation respond in the same way as the individual did?

  CONSENSUS