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.
Contents
Outline
The predecessor lecture is Operations Management Quarter.
Concepts
- 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.
- Cognitive capacity.
- Physical ability. An individual's capacity to do tasks that demand stamina, dexterity, strength, and similar characteristics.
- Heredity. Factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
- Intellectual ability. An individual's capacity to do mental activities -- thinking, reasoning, and problem solving.
- 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.
- Affect. A broad range of feelings that people experience.
- Affect intensity. Individual differences in the strength with which individuals experience their emotions.
- Parochialism. Viewing the world solely through your own perspectives, leading to an inability to recognize differences between people.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Selective perception. The tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes.
- Personality. The sum total of ways in which an individual reacts to interacts with others.
- Personality. The unique combination of emotional, thought, and behavioral patterns that affect how a person reacts to situations and interacts with others.
- Emotional stability. A personality dimension that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, and secure (positive) versus nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative).
- Narcissism. The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
- Machiavellianism. A measure of the degree to which people are pragmatic, maintain emotional distance, and believe that ends justify means.
- Machiavellianism. The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
- Openness to experience. A personality dimension that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
- Agreeableness. A personality dimension that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative, and trusting.
- Conscientiousness. A personality dimension that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
- Personality trait. An enduring characteristic that describes an individual's behavior.
- Proactive personality. A personality trait that describes individuals who are more prone to take actions to influence their environments.
- Proactive personality. People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
- Personality type.
- Big Five Model. A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions.
- Big Five Model. Personality trait model that includes extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience.
- Extraversion. A personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive.
- Dark Triad. A constellation of negative personality traits consisting of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy.
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies people into one of 16 personality types.
- Type A personality. People who have a chronic sense of urgency and an excessive competitive drive.
- Type B personality. People who are relaxed and easygoing and accept change easily.
- Trait activation theory. A theory that predicts that some situations, events, or interventions "activate" a trait more than others.
- Situation strength theory. A theory indicating that the way personality translates into behavior depends on the strength of the situation.
- Core value (collectively, also known as values). A basic conviction that a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence.
- Values. Basic convictions about what is right and wrong.
- Instrumental value. A preferable mode of behavior or mean of achieving one's terminal values.
- Terminal value. A desirable end-state of existence; the goal a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime.
- Values system. A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity.
- Self-concordance. The degree to which people's reasons for pursuing goals are consistent with their interests and core values.
Methods
Instruments
Practices
The successor lecture is Human Motivations Quarter.
