What influences our perception?

Messages that tell us we are expected to fulfill roles influence our perceptions. Demands of our roles influence our perceptions. Cognitive abilities shape our perceptions and cognitive complexity refers to the number of different knowledge schema used to organize and interpret people and situations. Cognitively complex people tend to be flexible in interpreting complicated phenomena and integrating new information into their thinking about people and situations. Less cognitively complex people are likely to ignore information that doesn’t fit neatly with their perceptions or to use it to replace the impressions they had formed. Person-centered perception is the ability to perceive another as a unique and distinct individual. Person-centered perception reflects cognitive complexity because it entails abstract thinking and a broad range of schemata. Person-centered perception is not the same as empathy is the ability to feel with another person.

Perception is Reality

A phrase that comes up a lot now a day is "Perception is Reality." Although this concept is wrong on a factual basis, it is reality in terms of living in today's society in which interacting and relating to others is a necessity for survival and success in today's world.One thing that can fog a person's perception is biases created by past experiences. Take, for example, the perception of the world a person might have if they were raised in a loving, supportive family. That particular individual's perception of self and others, and the world we live in, would be one of optimism, which opens the mind, creating a filter that feeds the individual the information that will help a person grow and succeed.

Why is Psychology important to me?

Psychology is important to me because I had learned many things, for example I’ve learned that life has many different perspectives it's just the way you are raised by your parents. What I like more is that in psychology opens your eyes in many different ways so you can help open other people eyes.

Why is psycology important to me