Perception

Duration: 27 min.

Year Published: 1979

Creator: McGraw-Hill Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Explores the physiological, psychological, and cultural forces that influence human perception. Explains the necessity of a balance between subjective perceptions and objective truths. Several vignettes in business and social settings depict the consequences of individuals' perceiving situation differently., Explores the physiological, psychological, and cultural forces that influence human perception. Explains the necessity of a balance between subjective perceptions and objective truths.

Complete Record: , Shows how we form impressions about people and events, and illustrates both negative and positive effects of subjectivity in reporting and analyzing. In the opening scene, warehouse workers witness the collision of two forklifts. The warehouse manager attempts to get the facts about the accident, and finds there are as many different versions of the collision as there were observers. Using this scene as a reference, viewers learn how perceptual subjectivity is actually formed from physiological and psychological sources., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.