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Imposing Consistency (5) Preconnecting Causes and Effects (6) Preferring Simple Explanations (7) Ignoring Circumstances (8) Crediting Irrelevant Information (9) Focusing on the Negative (10) Seeing Good or Bad (1) Ignoring Details ? We give too much weight to information that is obvious and superficial. We tend to explain the motives for a person39。 each group has one task to discuss one aspect of physiological crosscultural difference, that is, conditions of physical environment, indirect environmental conditions, geic differences and cultural differences in how people interact with their environment. After that, let each group leader to stand for each group to do the summary of the key points. Physiological filters include the natural or geic differences in how one sees, hears, smells, tastes, or feels. According to some scholars, there are four explanations for intercultural differences in the perception of sensory stimuli. (1) Conditions of the Physical Environment (2) Indirect Environmental Conditions (3) Geic Differences (4) Cultural Differences in How People Interact with Their Environment Step 2: Discuss sociological crosscultural difference Please read “cultural effect on sensing and “Cultural Effect on Perceiving” separately and summarize the key points . Then share the key points with your classmates. You can have the classroom petition in groups to find more vivid examples about cultural influence on sensation and perception. In the end , you can find which group is the winner. ? Sociological filters represent demographic data and one39。 Step 2: Discuss sensing Discuss what we can sense and what we cannot sense in the daily life, and also analyze how we sense the outside world. Step 3: Discuss perceiving Define perception after reading “perception” and finishing “Blank Filling”. (1) Perception refers to the process of the being aware of o______, e______, and p______, especially their b_____ through our senses. (2) Our perceptions are only in a part of function of the outside world。 ? Organization: It is the process during which we need to anize and impose structure on what we observe in a meaningful way. 組織: 組織是把從周圍選擇的刺激信息,以一種有意義的方式整理,組合的過程。它是解釋感覺信息更為高階的認(rèn)知過程。大學(xué)英語 跨文化交際 Chapter 3 Culture’s Influence on Perception 黑龍江大學(xué)外語部 Learning objectives: Chapter Outline Culture’s Influence on Perception Overview: Human Perception Crosscultural Differences In Sensation and Perception Barriers to Accurate Perception How to Improve Your Perceptual Skills A Basic Model Sensing Perceiving Physiological Sociological Psychological Leadin Case: Perception of War ? Please read Case and then discuss the questions in pairs. 1. Why did Jim and Olga have very different attitudes towards starvation and war? 2. Give a brief analysis of their understandings of starvation and war. 3. What factors do you think influence the actual interaction between Jim and Olga? ? Prereading Task: Suppose you are an American farmer, a French engineer living in Paris, a Scottish country poet, a person living in tropical rain forest or a Chinese oversea student. What do you think of the beautiful full moon on the traditional Chinese MidAutumn Day? Text A Overview: Human Perception ? Discuss the model of human perception Step 1: Read “A Basic Model of Human Perception” and then explain the following key words. (1) Sensation (2) Perception (3) Selection (4) Organization (5) Interpretation ? Sensation: It is the neurological process by which people bee aware of their environment. It refers to the initial detection of energy from the physical