Definitions of Perception Perception
4 Situation
The press of time will literary force the manager to overlook some details, to rush certain activities and to ignore certain stimuli such as request from other
manager or from superiors Gibson, Ivancevich, and Donelly, 1985:67. People tend to work quickly when they do not have much time. Because of the limitation
of the time, people pay less attention to the factors, which might affect the work outcomes. People become careless in doing their activities. They make decision
about certain thing without further understanding or their perception toward the problem. People cannot implement SBC well because a certain situation which
does not enable them to do that.
5 Need
There are always many considerations in choosing the clothes. People wear their clothes based on their needs and expectation. Their expectation can
look beautiful or handsome. They have their own perceptions in choosing the clothes. Perception are significantly influenced by needs and desire Gibson,
Ivancevich, and Donelly, 1985:67. People will eat what they want to eat, see what they want to see, and do everything they want to do. The purpose of
choosing the clothes is to get the comfortable one based on their needs and expectation. Both needs and interest influence people in forming perception.
Teacher use SBC because it must. The government state SBC as the newest curriculum and the teacher should follow. The used of SBC is not based on the
teacher need but because it is a must. It tends to cause bad perception toward the use of SBC.
6 Emotion
Emotion can influence someone in forming perception. Gibson et. al 1985:68 supports this through his statement that strong emotion often distorts
perceptions. A girl considers her boyfriend is the perfect man. He gives her love, loyalty, and all his life. But one day his boyfriend has an affair with another girl.
She gets angry with her boyfriend. Due to that tragedy, she considers her boyfriend is not a good man for her anymore. Finally, they break up. Teachers
who do not have enough background information about SBC may find any difficulty in using SBC. This difficulty may cause emotional feeling. They may
get annoyed and angry since that they feel fail to implement this curriculum. This emotional feeling tend to lead the teachers to have bad perception toward SBC.
Besides those six factors, Altman, Valenzi, and Hodgetts 1985: 89 add that familiarity with the situation and a person’s past experience also affect what
he or she perceived. Teacher’s expectation of the good curriculum will create a frame in their mind about the characteristic of the good curriculum. Since that
School Based Curriculum is new, the teachers do not have any experience with this. But, their past experience using some different curriculum may give them the
background knowledge about the characteristic of the good curriculum.