Com Mid Term Pt 1

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SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
ASSUMPTION 1

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1 Communication is most human and humanizing activity in which people are engaged.

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SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
ASSUMPTION

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Human act toward people or things on the basis of the meanings they assign to those people or things).

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SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
ASSUMPTION

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Language activates the mind – it is not inherent.

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SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
DEFINITION

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the ongoing use of language and gestures in anticipation of how the other will react; thinking, the self, and society are produced through communication with one’s self and others.

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SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
KEY CONCEPTS (3)

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1Thinking (Mind)
2 The Self
3 Society (group life)

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SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
KEY CONCEPT 1
Thinking (Mind)

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Thinking (Mind): is a process of a mental conversation – interacting with the self – with an eye toward how others might see us and react to what we might do.

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SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
KEY CONCEPT 2
the self

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The Self: you have a self because you respond to yourself as an object – found through taking the role of an other and imagining how we look from other’s perception (looking-glass … socially constructed).

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SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
KEY CONCEPT 3
society (group life)

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Society (group life): consists of cooperative behaviors of society members.

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CONSTRUCTIVISM
ASSUMPTION

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Reality does not present itself in raw form but must be filtered through a person’s own way of seeing things.

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CONSTRUCTIVISM
ASSUMPTION

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Core Assumption: persons make sense of the world through systems of personal constructs.

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CONSTRUCTIVISM
DEFINITION

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cognitive constructs are organized into interpretative schemes, which influence how individual understand and communicate. Individuals display varying complexity in their cognitive constructs.

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CONSTRUCTIVISM
KEY CONCEPT 1
COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTS

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Cognitive: pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning.

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CONSTRUCTIVISM
KEY CONCEPT 1
COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTS

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Constructs: cognitive templates we fit over reality to bring order to our perceptions.

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CONSTRUCTIVISM
KEY CONCEPT 2
Interpretative Schemes

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Constructs are organized into interpretative schemes, which identify something and place the object in a category… or cognitive templates we fit over social reality to order our impressions of people.

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CONSTRUCTIVISM
KEY CONCEPT 3
Cognitive Complexity

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the significant number of constructs an individual has & the degree of distinctions that can be made.

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CONSTRUCTIVISM
KEY CONCEPT 4
High/Complex Cognitive Complexity

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typically results in greater understanding of others’ perspectives and how to frame messages so that they are understandable to others

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CONSTRUCTIVISM
KEY CONCEPTS
(4)

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1 cognitive constructs
2Interpretative Schemes
3Cognitive Complexity
4High/Complex Cognitive Complexity

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SOCIAL JUDGEMENT
ASSUMPTION

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We have internal attitude that anchor/provide reference points from which to make judgments and make comparisons with
current attitudes.

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SOCIAL JUDGEMENT
DEFINTION

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is an attempt to predict how an individual will judge messages and how those judgments will affect the
individual’s personal belief system.

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SOCIAL JUDGEMENT
KEY CONCEPT 1

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Statements fall along Latitudes of Acceptance, Rejection, an Non commitment.

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SOCIAL JUDGEMENT
KEY CONCEPT 2
ego involvement

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Latitudes of Acceptance and Rejection are influenced by Ego Involvement (your sense of the personal relevance of an issue)

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SOCIAL JUDGEMENT
KEY CONCEPT 3
Statement/Message Distortion

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Perceptual Errors

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SOCIAL JUDGEMENT
KEY CONCEPT 4
ATTITUDE CHANGE

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If attitude change is to occur dependent on perceived location of the message in respect to the latitudes of acceptance, rejection, and non commitment.

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SOCIAL JUDGEMENT
KEY CONCEPTS (4)

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1 latitudes
2 ego perception
3 statement message distortion
4 attitude change

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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
ASSUMPTION

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People have a rich assortment of cognitive elements (attitudes, perceptions, knowledge, and behaviors).

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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
ASSUMPTION

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People desire to establish consistency between belief and behaviors.

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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
ASSUMPTION

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Individuals are compelled to reduce dissonance.

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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
DEFINTION

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when individuals experience inconsistency between their beliefs and behaviors dissonance is produce;
resulting in attempts to reduce the inconsistency.

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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
KEY CONCEPTS (5)

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1 COGNITIVE ELEMENTS 2 DISSONANCE 3 ADDRESSING DISSONANCE 4 BEHAVIORAL/ ATTITUDE CHANGE 5 DISSONANCE STRENGTH VARIABLES

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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
KEY CONCEPT 1
COGNITIVE ELEMENETS

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relate to each other within a system.

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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
KEY CONCEPT 2
DISSONANCE

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discord between belief and behavior.

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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
KEY CONCEPT 3
ADDRESSING DISSONANCE

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DISSANCE PRODUCES TENSION THAT CREATES PRESSURE FOR YOU TO CHANGE

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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
KEY CONCEPT 4
BEHAVIORAL/ ATTITUDE CHANGE

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To change a attitude an individual must first change one’s behavior – attitude will change will follow.

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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
KEY CONCEPT 5
DISSONANCE STRENGTH VARIABLES

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Importance of decision.