Review Of Maria Poimenidou's Perception Of Reality

How being a girl changes my perception of reality by Maria Poimenidou

In order to conclude on what and if ones perception changes based on his or hers gender we must first define perception and reality. According to Daniel Gilbert perception is the result of a psychological process that combines what our eyes see with what we already think, feel, know, want and believe and then uses this combination of sensory information and pre-existing knowledge to construct our perception of reality. It is the recognition and interpretations of sensory stimuli based chiefly on memory or the neurological processes by which such recognition and interpretation are affected. Then reality is the satisfaction of instinctual needs through awareness of and adjustment

In a communicative activity, the degree of the subject's willingness to interact, tested by Krypnov, a Russian psychologist, detected that styles featured as “energetic, businesslike," "conformal, emotional," "diplomatic, externally oriented" for boys and "energetic, sociable," "emotional, difficult," and "complaisant, expressive"for girls. This test proves that men and women differ in the way they interact with others but is this a biological trait or based their perception of interaction. Sex is the biological make-up of an individual and gender is the learned behaviors a culture associates with being male or female. Based on biology women and man are born with the same intellectual abilities, have the same structure of brain and sensory organs so their perception of reality should not differ. George Herbet Mead believed that our understandings of ourselves and the world around us are shaped by our interactions with those around us. What if the environment in which girls and boys were the ones that influenced their perception of reality. The environment in which they grow and the pre-existing knowledge of the people around them influences their

Girls have pink rooms and boys blue. Parents want their daughters to be happy and boys to be successful. Women are raised to believe that they are inferior to men and less capable. All of the above change the way girls, gender perceive reality. Girls see the path of career as a “luxury” or something that comes after family while for boys it is a must and granted. Girls reality changes on what to choose to become, their profession or how to act in their workplace and household. Although both sexes are born to perceive the same reality, as they grow up this changes based on