Perception and Eggs

We tried to perceive who two students were through their looks and body language. Most of the answers were gained through our own images of others, and trying to fit the students into what we would class as sterotypical characteristics for that type of person. Most of the answers the class got were correct for student 'A', but were not so correct for student 'B'.

A perception is the immediate impression someone gives off to another person. A person gives off their first impression within the first 17 seconds of meeting people. This would be the lasting perception others have of you.

The group did 'egg' of ourselves. This involved answers to questions being wrote in a shape of our choice. After collecting them and giving other random ones to us, /the group was asked to write our perceptions of the person, which was easier because we don't know much about each other yet. Getting a perception of the person i had was hard, not much information was given on the sheet, but there were a few obvious things which really stood out for me. I think i got a pretty good perception of who the person was and where their values lie.

The activities showed the group that perception is reasonably easy to understand, and showed that it is easy for the perception of something to be wrong.