Pantulan~

Pantulan, so-called reflection... social psychology is indeed a pantulan towards human in life. It portrays certain characteristics, behaviors and attitudes that one's possesses. "how come this word has so many S's? Made me blur!"

Anyway... today, we learnt about biases in attitude. Hmmm. In my own defination, it can be meant as the tendency to like or dislike something/one which do not based on the fact. Hmmm. Do i have it? Yeap. I do. There are four levels of biases in our daily lives.

Level 1: Selective exposure.

-Basically, it means if we're being in the presense of the biasness. We tend to choose to either walk away, see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil in front of the bias'ed subject/human. Well, i did that. I choose to go away.

Level 2: Selective attention.

- Hmmm... this could mean, you shift the attention towards certain thing in order to look at the things that u don't prefer. Hmmm... shifting attention is easier been said than done. You may successfully shifting ur attention, but did you really don't think of it? Nope.

Level 3: Selective retention.

- Well, if you don't want to remember it, then forget it. Again, this is hard to the core. Human has feelings towards everything. Being forgetful can be an accident. But, being totally ignorant, it's hard. =)

Level 4: Selective perception.

- Here, it means our interpretation. Although u know the existence of the biasness in your mind, but the keras kepala mind will bring you nowhere. No matter how good or bad the person/thing is, your interpretation on him/her/it will still be the same. Biasness still exists. *opps* No matter positive or negative. ^^

Hmmm... Just thought of sharing it with you guys about what i've learnt today because it impacted me a lot during this class. I bet, my friends felt it too. ^^ Again, social psych makes me think. =)