Spot Light 2 Testing Perception

Spotlight 2: Testing Perception “We rely on perception constantly to make sense of everything and everyone in our environment” (McCornack 75). Our perception of people are filled with mistakes, but our perception is a window of how we view the world. As human beings, first impressions matter and these impressions helps us to determine what kind of relationship we will have with certain people whether if they’ll be long term or short term relationships. However, it is apparent that our first impressions of people are not always right because without realizing it, we have a tendency to place stereotypes on certain people before we really get know them more personally. I know I’m not the only one guilty of this, but our initial perception of …show more content…
That is to say, based on what Leslie looked like and how he acted in class, I was able to gather certain information about him and make my own impression of who he is. For example, before class would start I would see him searching the internet or just messing around on his phone. To be honest, I would notice him not always paying attention during the lecture. However, with his appearance even though Leslie wore glasses I didn’t perceive or consider him nerdy, but on the other hand the fact I wear huge glasses and pay close attention in class, I get the label nerdy which is true because I am nerdy. I mean it doesn’t bother me to be called nerdy because even when Leslie and I interacted with one another he even perceived me nerdy. In spite of what I thought about Leslie and in spite of what he thought of me, what made this exercise interesting was breaking the barrier and going out my way to understand him better. For instance, as Leslie and I began talking that barrier started to come down because we were letting our guard down a little and I realized for me the more I got to know him the more I realized you can’t judge a book by its