The document discusses perception and how individuals perceive and understand the world differently based on various internal and external factors. It notes that perception involves a process of selection, organization, and interpretation of information and can be influenced by things like intensity, size, contrast, repetition, movement, as well as one's physical condition, cultural background, and social role. The document recommends questioning what one may have failed to notice and how one's thinking, background, or condition may have impacted their own perceptions.

2. “No one should
assume that
what he or she
perceives is the
same as what
others perceive”
(p. 81)
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3.  How We Understand and Organize the World
 How We Respond to the World
 How We Develop and Form Identities
 How We Choose and Develop Relationships

4. A process by which we take information in
and seek to understand it.
 Three separate but interrelated processes:
• Selection
• Organization
• Interpretation
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6. Selection (p. 83)
• Intensity
• Size
• Contrast
• Repetition
• Movement

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13.  Ask yourself:
• What might I have failed to notice?
• Have I engaged in faulty thinking?
• Has my physical condition impacted my perceptions?
• Has my cultural background influenced my perceptions?
• Has my social role influenced my perceptions?