Characteristics of the target also affect what we perceive. Loud people more likely to be noticed than quiet ones. So, too, are extremely attractive or un individuals. Because we don't look at targets in isolation, the relation attractive perception, as does our tendency to influences ship of a target to its background group close things and similar things together. We often perceive women, men, Whites, African Americans, Asians, or members of any other group that has characteristics as alike in other, unrelated ways as well distinguishable clearly