Mallory has accepted a new job as a marketing coordinator at a Fortune 500 company. She wants to make a good impression and hopes to fit in quickly with the culture of the company

Question

Discuss ways Mallory can use the perception process to achieve her goals.
What will be an ideal response

Answer 1

Perception is the arousal of any of our senses, and Mallory will certainly be using her senses as she goes to work every day. The first stage in the perception process is attention and selection in which we notice and choose to pay particular attention to certain sensations in our environment. For example, when Mallory walks in the office, there are numerous stimuli to which she can attend such as the space, the music being played, the multitude of people, and the instructions of her manager. Mallory might choose to attend to her manager rather than the other people in the office. Next is the stage of organization which involves converting information into understandable patterns. Mallory will organize the instructions she is given. For the concepts she doesn't grasp, she makes notes to review later. Finally, she moves to interpretation. In other words, she assigns meaning to what she has observed. Mallory interprets from the manager's meeting that she understands several points well, needs to review and reread others and can combine several concepts she has learned from information she learned in a college class. These steps will help focus her perception and improve her performance at work.