Perception is usually very accurate according to the video. Specifically, our initial impression of someone or something is the more accurate assessment.......not 100% but among the major of being correct. This has been stated by others...that our initial take on something is usually the correct position.
Severa factors can make a significant contribution to our ability to accurately evaluate; sight, sound, small, feel are few. What can enhance or deminish our ability to achieve a correct evaluation are our environmental conditions such as light/darkness, sound, movement and temperature. These elements can create enough of a distraction to us that we lose our focus/attention and thereby arrive at decisions that have been skewed from our norm.
Over the course of our lives we are bombarded with a lot of information. How we process this information can have an effect on our bias' and expectations. If we watch a professional sports team compete we expect for them to do well; afterall, they have been hired to perform the sport....it is their job to do it well.
At different times in our lives we may quickly assess and come to conclusions regarding a given situation while at other times we give some thought and arrive at our conclusion based on a stronger analytical process. Media tends to create the former. Headlines are designed to capture our attention and convince us to read the article. Statements can be made in the media for the purpose to draw the reader in to the story to the point where either knowledge on the subject is gained or a position of the writer is accurately communicated.....or maybe both.
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