Activity 3: Perception vs.
Reality
NAME: Gadingan, Khenjene B. Crs./Yr/Section: BPED 1-2
Write five to ten descriptors (i.e. thoughtful, chatty – can be English, Taglish or Tagalog)
about what you truly think describes you as a person. Then, ask 2 or more people to do
the same but they will be describing you as a person.
Below all the descriptors, answer the questions to delve into these descriptors. Feel free to add
how this plays into the previous theories we discussed as you answer these questions.
You Person 1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4
1. Understanding Pretty Neat Supportive Generous
2. Friendly Kind Exquisite Reliable Ambitious
3. Submissive Friendly Has diff. level of Courageous Resourceful
sense of humor
4. Loving Funny Fashionable Trustworthy Jolly
5. Caring Brainy Humble Empathetic Supportive
6. Jolly Photogenic Self-improver Understanding Extrovert
7. Humble Cool Bright Caring Hardworking
8. Ambivert Good Dancer Positive Thoughtful Responsible
9. Shy type Obedient Peacekeeper Generous Trustworthy
10. Hardworking Trustworthy Narcissistic Humorous Heterosexual
1. Comparing the lists of descriptors from yours and the people you talked to, discuss why
there may be similarities or differences within the descriptors listed above.
I think that there are similarities within the descriptors above because I may show
my real personality to them, and since I’ve talked with my friends, they may know the
personality I have, and that’s how they know me and their perception to me. On the other
hand, there is differences since I have talked to different friend of mine, and they have
different perception about me, and I think that they know me in many personalities that I’ve
show to them.
2. Provide an insight as to how the descriptors listed above relate to you in the following:
a. physical appearance and body
b. sex, gender, and orientation
c. material possessions and social status
d. religion, spirituality and personal meaning to life
e. identity as a Filipino
f. internet profiles and social media
3. Do you think that you, as an individual, was clearly represented or was there something
missing? Elaborate on your feelings and thoughts.
As an individual, looking at the list, maybe there are something missing, but I am
enough satisfied that they have something to describe me and know me as a person not
my whole personality but some of my perspectives. I think that they had clearly represented
me as who I am, because as I show them the personality I have or I personally.
4. With what you know now, are you influenced to change based on the results of the activity?
Clearly state the reason/s why you think so.
Based on the list of the descriptors, I am not influenced to change
myself/personality, because I am already valuable just as who I am. It’s about evolving on
my own, not to change myself for others. And my personality is me and my attitude
depends on you.
