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Assignment 1 LASA  2:
PowerPoint Presentation

• Utilizing the information you
  compiled for your literature review paper, prepare a 10-15 minute Power Point
  presentation on your topic (What are
  the Causes & Affects of Person Perception?), summarizing the key
  points and conclusions. Be sure to direct this presentation to an audience in
  the community. For example, if your paper pertained to a topic in developmental
  psychology, direct your presentation toward parents, or a parenting center. If
  your topic pertained to substance abuse, direct it toward a community service
  agency which may use this information for educating teens or parents about
  preventing drug use, or current clients about treatments and facilities
  available. Please state in your presentation the specific audience toward whom
  your presentation is aimed. Include a reference page in APA format, as well as
  speaker notes and an audio file with your presentation.

Your slides should provide answers
to the following questions: 

• What was your topic?
• What question did you hope to answer by completing this
  literature review paper? Explain the practical implications of the
  conclusions of the literature review and the audience to which they are
  directed.
• Given the results of your literature review, what is/are
  the prevailing argument(s)? In other words, which of those is supported by
  the existing evidence? Be sure to include full coverage of the arguments,
  including strengths and weaknesses of each of them, supported by your
  findings from reviewing the relevant articles.
• Did the researchers consider multicultural factors in
  their studies? If not, what factors may be involved? What multicultural
  factors should future studies include?
• What ethical issues are related to your topic and/or
  discussed in the studies you reviewed?
• How do the conclusions of your literature review relate
  to the various specialization areas in psychology? Tie them to as many as
  apply from the following areas: biological, cognitive, developmental,
  social, personality theory, psychopathology, and applied psychology.
• How can the conclusions of your literature review
  inform the population towards whom your presentation is directed? How can
  they apply this information to their daily lives? What advice or ‘take
  home message’ can you provide to your audience based on the research you
  reviewed?
• What research question could you ask in order to
  further develop this area of study?
• Why is your research question important and relevant to
  the current work being done on your topic?

Your presentation should also follow
these guidelines:

• It should be approximately 10-15 minutes in length.
• It should be clear, concise, and professional. 
  Writing should be free of spelling and grammatical errors; it should
  conform to current APA style (including any in-text citations).
• It should include graphs, tables, figures, or images
  illustrating your ideas.
• There should be a final slide listing references in
  current APA style.
• The
  bulk of the text should be placed in the Notes pages of each slide. Keep
  the amount of text on the slide, itself, to a minimum.
• You should record an audio file of your oral
  presentation. You should also type the text of the speech you would give
  while showing these slides to an audience should be typed into the Notes
  area.  If you are unable to use the audio feature, the Notes text
  will suffice.
• You can refer to the Power Point tips document provided
  in the Doc Sharing section of the course.

This is my Literature Review paper:

• What are
  the Causes & Affects of Person Perception?

• Abstract

• What
  is person perception and exactly what causes one person to think certain ways
  about other people? Kendra Cherry, a physiology expert, (2014) states that “In
  social psychology, the term perception refers to the different mental
  processes that we use to form impressions of other people”. People are quick to
  form a perception about someone without even talking to the person. Perceptions
  are formed based on many different variables such as needs, wants, attitudes,
  experiences, and beliefs. After the perception has been formed the person is
  placed into a social category such as wealth, employment, and/or religion.
  After the person has been categorized into a social group the reaction,
  positive or negative, process will begin.

• These
  perceptions of others cause us to portray certain behaviors and in the long run
  this will affect the way we make decisions. (Cherry, K.
  2014). It is very important that people
  keep a positive attitude when interacting with others so that the perceptions
  of others are not misconstrued or clouded based on fast judgment, social
  categorization, and human reactions. (Bargh, J. A., Chen, M.,
  & Burrows, L. 1996). The purpose for writing this piece is to find out why
  people are so quick to cast judgment upon others and also to attempt to change
  this behavior in myself because I have noticed recently that I am quick to cast
  judgment upon others based on their appearance or based on tattoos, piercing,
  or hair color. It is not fair to judge people at all, but to judge one based on
  their hair color? That is just absurd.

• The
  Many Different Variables

• People
  are quick to form a perception or an opinion about someone without even talking
  to the person. Perceptions are formed based on many different variables such as
  wealth, handicap, appearance, clothes, hair (style and/or color), cars, music,
  color (race), etc. If a person is well dressed one will perceive that specific
  person is wealthy or takes good care of themselves. Example: If Billy (an older
  African American male) is seen at a store being very friendly with a known drug
  dealer, people will perceive that Billy is purchasing drugs from this dealer.
  This is the way our eyes perceive the situation, and then we are quick to cast
  our judgment that Billy has a drug problem. “Perceptions are the basis of all
  actions: decisions, judgments, attitudes, emotions, all the choices made by
  individuals, organizations, and communities are based on the perceptions of the
  people involved” (Shaus, R. 2001-2010). All of these variables are also based
  on situation and experience, meaning that most likely two people in the same
  situation will have totally different views of the situation.

• Rick
  Shaus (2001-2010), provides this great example “Two people can look at a drug
  addict with one seeing a criminal and the other seeing a victim of
  circumstance, a third person could claim to see a case of mental illness and
  according to different frames of judgment, each or all three could be correct”.
  This results from people growing up in different life styles and someone who had
  previously been in a similar situation would be more understanding than someone
  who had never experienced this before. Someone who had never done drugs is more
  likely to look down upon people who use drugs or people who have used drugs in
  their past. People who are raised wealthy have totally different views from
  those who were raised very poor and these different people would also have
  different morals and values they were raised to agree with, but it does not
  take long for one to form an opinion of someone else based on looks, actions,
  or any other variable that may be involved.

• Labeling
  Social Category

• After
  the perception has been formed about the person and they have been placed into
  a social category, the reaction process starts. The reaction or labeling can
  either be negative or positive. “Labeling is based on the self-identity and
  behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to
  describe or classify them and it is known to be associated with the concepts of
  self-fulfilling prophecy and stereotyping” (Macionis, J., and
  Gerber, L. 2010). An example of self-fulfilling prophecy is; a teacher who
  thinks a child is slower than the rest of the students may start to cater to
  that child more than usual or ask the child less difficult questions as
  compared to the rest of the class. The teacher does this in hopes of the child
  receiving better grades, but may result in the student getting better grades
  than any other student in class.

• Stereotyping is known as “a fixed, over
  generalized belief about a particular group or class of people” (Cardwell, M.
  1996). “One advantage of a stereotype is that it enables us to respond rapidly
  to situations because we may have had a similar experience before and one
  disadvantage is that it makes us ignore differences between individuals;
  therefore we think things about people that might not be true (i.e. make
  generalizations)” (Cardwell, M. 1996). Labeling has become so negative recently
  that it has acquired a bad name; from doctors, teachers, parents, and the
  public. Stereotype labeling is the worst type of labeling because it causes one
  to assume things, mostly negative thing, about a certain gender, race, or
  religion.

• Perceptions
  & Behavior

• “Behavioral
  potentials set the limits within which our dispositions can vary. And vary they
  do, even for people in the same culture, society, and family” (Hewitt, J.
  1970).  These perceptions of others cause
  us to portray certain behaviors and in the long run this will affect the way we
  make decisions and it will also affect the way our children make decisions. The
  children are our future and the responsibility is in our hands to teach them
  right from wrong and I have learned that having a negative attitude affects
  one’s way of life and happiness, so be as positive as possible in all
  situations. Staying as positive as possible has many benefits such as: “People
  who practice positive thinking are more likely to have less stress, are more
  optimistic believe in themselves and their abilities, believe that the bad things
  that do happen to them are just small setbacks, and they can easily overcome
  anything” (Universe Laws. 2014).

• People
  of the same culture have the same beliefs and values as one another. They see
  eye-to-eye majority of the time and get along because of this. Some cultures
  reflect negativity towards other cultures and children learn to mimic these
  actions early in life. Some families discipline their children in a negative
  manor and this causes the children to grow up confused and being a rebel
  against anyone with authority. The way we grow up depends on the way we will
  raise our own children, but people have been known to break the cycle by
  putting forth effort to see the wrongdoings and correct them. Example: Long ago
  members of the KKK would walk around performing violent hate crimes and this
  behavior towards African Americans continued for generations. This can cause
  people to cast judgment only based on skin color and a negative perception is
  placed upon this group because of their beliefs and actions. Since this type of
  hatred can be discontinued we should also discontinue our casting judgment so
  fast.

• Conclusion

•   To
  sum it all up one’s perception of others or a situation can be altered by what
  the eyes see instead of knowing the situation and evaluating it properly.  One should never form a false perception of
  another based on wealth,
  handicap, appearance, clothes, hair (style and/or color), cars, music, color
  (race), employment, and/or religion. These perceptions of others cause us to
  portray certain behaviors and in the long run this will affect the way we make
  decisions. (Cherry, K. 2014). It is very important that people keep a positive attitude
  when interacting with others so that the perceptions of others are not
  misconstrued or clouded based on fast judgment, social categorization, and
  human reactions.

•   Labeling
  has become overwhelming and should only reflect positive labeling instead of
  negative labeling such as gay, Negro, etc. Stereotype labeling is the worst
  type of labeling because it causes one to assume things, mostly negative thing,
  about a certain gender, race, or religion. We all should refrain from doing
  this because it causes negative reactions all around.

•   Everyone
  should try to stay positive about all situations all the time. Universe Laws
  (2014) states that “People who are happier have their thoughts aligned to
  what they want, helping manifest desires, improve outcomes, events, and overall
  happiness in life”.  “Start changing how your mind thinks and don’t
  forget that your thoughts control your emotions which can help control the
  events in your life, good or bad” (Universe Laws. 2014). Staying positive
  always has the best results, especially when interacting with others around you
  on a daily basis.

• References

• Bargh, J. A., Chen, M., & Burrows,
  L. (1996). Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of

• trait construct and stereotype
  activation on action. Journal of Personality and Social

• Psychology, 71, 230-244.

• Cherry, K. (2014). Perception and the
  Perceptual Process. Retrieved from

• http://psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/ss/perceptproc.htm

• Cherry, K. (2014). Person Perception.
  Retrieved from

• http://psychology.about.com/od/socialpsychology/a/person-perception.htm

• Hewitt, John P. Social Stratification
  and Deviant Behavior, New York: Random House, 1970.

• Macionis, J., and Gerber, L. (2010).
  Labeling theory: Social constructionism, Social stigma,

• Deinstitutionalization, and Labeling.
  Sociology, 7th edition

• Mencken, H. “Research in Organizational
  Behavior” New York Times, September 8, 2001, p.

• A1 (Appendix A).

• S. Milgram, Obedience to Authority (New
  York: Harper & Row, 1974). “Understanding

• Behavior in the Milgram Obedience
  Experiment: The Role of Personality, Situations, and

• Their Interactions” Journal of
  Personality and Social Psychology, March 1991, pp. 398–

• 413.

• Shaus, R. (2001-2010). Perceptions. Retrieved from

• http://www.rickshaus.com/docs/opn/thgts/prcptns.htm

• The Meaning of Perception. (n.d.)
  Visuals. Retrieved from

• http://www.worldtrans.org/TP/TP1/TP1-9.HTML

• Universe Laws. (2014). The Benefits of
  Staying Positive. Retrieved from

• http://www.universelaws.com/the-benifits-of-staying-positive