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26 Cards in this Set
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Perception
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The process of selectively attending to information and assigning meaning to it
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Perception Process
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Step 1: Attention and Selection
Step 2: Organization of stimuli Step 3: Interpretation of Stimuli |
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Attention and Selection: Your choices of sensory stimuli depend in part of ___________
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your needs, interests, and expectations
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Organization of stimuli: Our brains arrange these stimuli so that they make sense according to organizing principles such as ____________
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simplicity and pattern
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Pattern
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A set of characteristics used to differentiate some things from others.
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Perceptions of Self:
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Self-concept and self-steem
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Self-concept
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your self-identity
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self-steem
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your overall evaluation of your competence and personal worthiness
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Self concept:
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self-perceptions
others responses and reactions |
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self-steem
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social construction of self
self-monitoring |
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The accuracy of your self-concept and self-steem depends on _______
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the accuracy of your own perceptions and how you process others perceptions of you
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Incongruence
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the gap between our inaccurate self-perceptions and reality
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How you talk to yourself:
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positive self-talk
negative self-talk |
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How you talk about yourself:
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Positive communication
Negative communication |
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self-talk
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the internal conversations we have with ourselves
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__________ plays a big role in your self-concept and self-steem
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Your culture
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Type of culture
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Individualistic culture
Collectivist culture |
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Uncertainty reduction
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The process of monitoring the social environment to learn about self and others
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Implicit Personality Theory
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Assumptions about which physical characteristics and personality traits or behaviours are associated with one another
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Halo effect
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To generalize and perceive that a person has a whole set of characteristics when you have actually observed only one characteristic, trait, or behaviour.
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Stereotypes
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Generalizations, usually exaggerated or oversimplified and often offensive, use to describe or distinguish a group
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Stereotypes:
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Prejudice
Discrimination |
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Prejudice
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A rigid attitude that is based on group membership and predisposes an individual to feel, think, or act in a negative way toward another person or group
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Discrimination
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A negative action toward a social group or its members on acount of group membership
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Improving social perceptions
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Question the accuracy of your perceptions
Seek more information to verify your perceptions Realize that perceptions change over time |
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Perception Check
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Watch the behavior
Ask yourself, "What does this behavior mean to me? Verify your perception |
