• Film Summary: Peter Gibbons hates his job with good reason. He works for a computer firm that treats its employees like cogs in a machine. The company is top-heavy with impersonal managers who bombard their employees with memos and pounce on the smallest infractions of office policy. As a result, the employees lack motivation and feel little commitment to the organization. They also feel defensive any time that they are approached by a manager.

• answer each of these questions in a post in the discussion forum:

• Watch the interaction between Peter Gibbons and his managers. What characteristics of the skill of perception does Peter exhibit? Analyze the scene using the stages of the process of perception.
• If you found yourself in this situation, how would you respond? What factors might influence your perceptual accuracy?