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Selective perception may refer to any number of cognitive biases in psychology related to the way expectations affect perception.Human judgment and decision making is distorted by an array of cognitive, perceptual and motivational biases, and people tend not to recognise their own bias, though they tend to easily recognise (and even overestimate) the operation of bias in human judgment by ...
Predispositions and the related processes of selective exposure, selective perception, and selective retention. The groups, and the norms of groups, to which the audience members belong. Interpersonal dissemination of the content of communication; The exercise of opinion leadership; The nature of mass media in a free enterprise society.
Attribution (psychology) – Process by which individuals explain causes of behavior and events; Black swan theory – Theory of response to surprise events; Chronostasis – Distortion in the perception of time; Cognitive distortion – Exaggerated or irrational thought pattern; Defence mechanism – Unconscious psychological mechanism
When exposure to a dissonant message has occurred, the phenomenon of selective perception often follows. This process simply means that people skew their perceptions to coincide with what they desire (Johnson-Cartee & Copeland, 1997). Perception is subjective and dependent on several factors; one factor, for example, is media type. Prior ...
However, numerous studies have documented the hostile media effect even when selective recall is positive rather than negative. [9] [11] [15] Selective perception refers to the process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages while ignoring opposing viewpoints. In instances of the hostile media effect, partisans have a ...
In this view, Broadbent proposed a so-called "early selection" view of attention, such that humans process information with limited capacity and select information to be processed early. Due to this limited capacity, a selective filter is needed for information processing.
The following process connects a person's concepts and expectations (or knowledge) with restorative and selective mechanisms, such as attention, that influence perception. Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness. [3]
In psychology and cognitive science, perceptual vigilance (also called perceptual sensitization) refers to a form of selective perception where a person has a heightened state of awareness and attentiveness towards specific stimuli or information, generally to satisfy a motive.