Human Perceptions Quarter

Human Perceptions Quarter (hereinafter, the Quarter) is the first of four lectures of Operations Quadrivium (hereinafter, the Quadrivium):

• The Quarter is designed to introduce its learners to enterprise discovery, or, in other words, to concepts related to obtaining data needed to administer the enterprise effort; and
• The Quadrivium examines concepts of administering various types of enterprises known as enterprise administration as a whole.

The Quadrivium is the first of seven modules of Septem Artes Administrativi, which is a course designed to introduce its learners to general concepts in business administration, management, and organizational behavior.

Outline

The predecessor lecture is Operations Management Quarter.

Concepts

1. Perception. A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
   • Perception. A process by which we give meaning to our environment by organizing and interpreting sensory impressions.
   • Psychology. The science that seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes change the behavior of humans and other animals.
2. Bias. A tendency or preference toward a particular perspective or ideology.
   • Confirmation bias. The tendency to seek out information that reaffirms past choices and to discount information that contradicts past judgments.
   • Hindsight bias. The tendency to believe falsely, after an outcome of an event is actually known, that one would have accurately predicted that outcome.
   • Self-serving bias. The tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors.
   • Self-serving bias. The tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors while putting the blame for failures on external factors.
   • Anchoring bias. A tendency to fixate on initial information, from which one then falls to adequately adjust for subsequent information.
   • Halo effect. A general impression of an individual based on a single characteristic.
   • Halo effect. The tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the basis of a single characteristic.

• Affect intensity. Individual differences in the strength with which individuals experience their emotions.
• Affect. A broad range of feelings that people experience.
• Affective component. That part of an attitude that's the emotional or feeling part.
• Affective component. The emotional or feeling segment of an attitude.
• Cognitive component. That part of an attitude that's made up of the beliefs, opinions, knowledge, or information held by a person.
• Cognitive component. The opinion or belief segment of an attitude.
• Emotion. Intense feeling that is directed at someone or something.
• Emotion. Intense feelings that are directed at someone or something.
• Felt emotion. An individual's actual emotions.
• Fundamental attribution error. The tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others.
• Fundamental attribution error. The tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others.
• Heredity. Factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
• Illusory correlation. The tendency of people to associate two events when in reality there is no connection.
• Information overload. A condition in which information inflow exceeds an individual's processing capacity.
• Information overload. When information exceeds our processing capacity.
• Intellectual ability. An individual's capacity to do mental activities -- thinking, reasoning, and problem solving.
• Interpersonal skill. The ability to work well with other people individually and in a group.
• Locus of control. A personality attribute that measures the degree to which people believe they control their own fate.
• Parochialism. Viewing the world solely through your own perspectives, leading to an inability to recognize differences between people.
• Physical ability. An individual's capacity to do tasks that demand stamina, dexterity, strength, and similar characteristics.
• Self-fulfilling prophecy. A situation in which a person inaccurately perceives a second person, and the resulting expectations cause the second person to behave in ways consistent with the original perception.
• Selective perception. The tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes.

Practices

The successor lecture is Human Motivations Quarter.