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DISCUSSION
Disparities in Physician Care: Experiences and Perceptions of a Multi-Ethnic America
Perception includes how we respond to information. It provides a way to take in sensory information ant turn it into something meaningful to the person. One example of this is a survey study conducted in 2007, involving 4,334 randomly selected adult Americans. The goal of the study was to determine the perception of disparity in physician care based on the fourteen racially and ethnically diverse groups compared to that of white Americans. “On each measure examined, at least five and as many as eleven subgroups perceived their care to be significantly worse than care for whites. In many instances, subgroups were at least fifteen percentage points more negative than whites” (Blendon et al., 2008, p. 507). Some of the topics of the survey included quality of care, ease f getting an appointment, time spent with physicians, patient-physician communication, and overall quality of care (Blendon et al., 2008). The results of this study indicate that individual experiences at health care facilities influence their perceptions of quality and fair healthcare. Melvin
Attention includes how we concentrate on certain stimuli around us. All of the different types of attention focus on reacting to certain stimuli. For instance, in regards to visual search, Anderson (2010) states, “People are able to select stimuli to attend to, either in the visual or auditory
domain, on the basis of physical properties and, in particular, on the basis of
location.
1.Perception – The recognition of external stimuli through the sensory systems for the purpose of interpretation. The source of perceptions can come from several systems including sounds, sight, smell, taste, and physical contact. “Billions of neurons process sensory information and deliver what they find to the higher centers in the brain. This enormous information-processing system creates a problem for higher-level cognition: how to decide what to attend to from all the sensory information being processed” (Anderson, 2010. p. 32). Perception leads to focusing attention on particular information through a filtering process; all or part of that information is then committed to memory for future reference. Melvin
2. Attention – Attention is the ability to choose and concentrate on certain stimuli. Several different types of attention are used by individuals daily including, but not limited to, auditory attention and visual attention. Auditory attention includes listening to the stimuli, while visual attention includes actually viewing the stimuli. Anderson (2010) stated two interesting findings, “attention is strongly related to consciousness—we cannot attend to one thing unless we are conscious of it. The second is that attention, like consciousness, is a unitary system” (Anderson, 2010, p. 91).
CONCLUSIONS
When it comes to perception, people have relatively good memory for meaningful interpretations of information (Anderson, 2010). External sensory stimuli from the environment helps one gain information, understanding, and how to respond to the world and others. Melvin
In regards to attention, it is important to note that everyone chooses different stimuli to concentrate on, and thus, everyone’s attention cognitive processes differ.
REFERENCES
Anderson, J. R. (2010). Cognitive psychology and it's implications (7th ed.). New York: Worth Publisher
Blendon, R. J., Buhr, T., Cassidy, E. F., Pérez, D.,J., Sussman, T., Benson, J. M., & Herrmann, M. J. (2008). Disparities in physician care: Experiences and perceptions of A multi-ethnic america. Health Affairs, 27(2), 507-17. doi:http://dx.doi.org.contentproxy.phoenix.edu/10.1377/hlthaff.27.2.507
Stephen Kwasi, O. D., Nketiah-Amponsah, E., Janssens, W., & Pradhan, M. (2018). Perceptions of healthcare quality in ghana: Does health insurance status matter? PLoS One, 13(1) doi:http://dx.doi.org.contentproxy.phoenix.edu/10.1371/journal.pone.0190911
INTRODUCTION
An important of part of the cognitive process is to form internal representations of the external world. This ability is essential for a wide variety of cognitive operations, ranging from perception, categorization, the motor system, remembering, reasoning, planning, and language interpretation. These operations are the basis of systems that support cognitive and conceptual processes (van Dantzig, Pecher, Zeelenberg, & Barsalou, 2008).
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CONCLUSIONS
van Dantzig, S. Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Barsalou, L. W. (2008). Perceptual processing affects conceptual processing. Cognitive Science, 32(3), 579–590. https://doi-org.contentproxy.phoenix.edu/10.1080/03640210802035365
DISCUSSION
Attention (continued) particular, on the basis of location” (Anderson, 2010, p. 95). This fact concludes the notion that our attention, both visual and auditory, is based on what we choose to concentrate on. Austin
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