ENG2044 - PERCEPTION

Multiple Choice

You’ve been scammed by landlords 5 times now. Your current apartment manager assures you that if you keep your house clean, you will be able to get a refund of your cleaning deposit. You are skeptical.

• Past experiences

• Roles

• Present feelings & Circumstances

• Culture

Multiple Choice

in your parents’ home you are a son or daughter; in your own home you may be a roommate or a mother or father; in the classroom you are a student; and at work you may be a welder or a retail associate

• Past experiences

• Roles

• Present feelings & Circumstances

• Culture

Multiple Choice

 You’re at work and you've just received some exciting news about a promotion you've been vying for. In that moment, you're filled with a sense of accomplishment and happiness. As you interact with your colleagues, you find yourself more open and enthusiastic. 

The next day, you're feeling under the weather due to a cold, and you're also stressed because of a looming deadline. Your communication has become more reserved.

• Past experiences

• Roles

• Present feelings & Circumstances

• Culture

Multiple Choice

 You’re American and you’re in a business meeting with a colleague from Japan. You directly point out flaws in their plan, wanting an efficient discussion. However, they interpret your directness as a personal attack, feeling disrespected because in Japan saving face and group harmony are important.

• Past experiences

• Roles

• Present feelings & Circumstances

• Culture

Multiple Choice

You mistake a customer wearing yellow for an IKEA staff.

• Figure & ground

• Closure

• Proximity

• Similarity

Multiple Choice

You are in your noisy classroom and honestly quite annoyed by it. Suddenly, you hear your teacher call out your name and all the sounds become dull in comparison to your teacher’s voice.

• Figure & ground

• Closure

• Proximity

• Similarity

Multiple Choice

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulacity uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! It deson’t matter in what oredr the ltteers in a wrod are; the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

You can understand this because of __________________

• Figure & ground

• Closure

• Proximity

• Similarity

Multiple Choice

The reason why in the TV show The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon, Howard, and Raj hang out together. Also the reason why in Friends, Monica and Rachel hang out together, and why Chandler and Joey are inseparable.

• Figure & ground

• Closure

• Proximity

• Similarity