In: Psychology
Post an example of an interaction you've experienced with someone from a group you do not belong to (gender, sexual orientation, "race," ethnicity, religion, etc.). Describe your meta-perceptions going into the interaction, and how those perceptions were confirmed, disconfirmed, or remained ambiguous.
This example is of times when I was a student-teacher or the trainee-teacher. As a trainee-teacher I was trained in teaching for the whole year in the classes that had only girls, being a female I didn't had any trouble with the girls so the training and classes went smoothly. But, during the final evaluation of my teaching I had to do the class for boys. I percieved them to be trouble makers, notorious, and bullies, and I percieved that they won't like me and would negatively evaluate me, and would not cooperate with me during the class, and this would effect my grading by the evaluater. I took their class, though I had negative perception about them and negative metaperception about myself initially. When the interactions with the students began my metacognition was proven wrong, they were co-operative, interacted well with me and this gave me a confidence that I am a good teacher, as they viewed me as a good teacher.