Stimuli related to our motive or goal. Selective retention is choosing stimuli to remember. We remember the good and forget the bad. Psychological filters include desires and expectations based on past experience. Physiological limits are impairments, body type, age, heredity, and temperament.
Closure is our tendency to fill in missing information.
We make stereotypes of people based on just a few characteristics instead of considering all of them. We can improve the accuracy of our perceptions in several ways. Assume a less authoritarian attitude and be less rigid in our expectations of other people. Be more objective and consider all the factors that contribute to the way another person behaves. Put ourselves in the other person's shoes.