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16 Cards in this Set
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Define perception.
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Perception is the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting data from out senses.
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Movement, novelty, repetition all grab our attention. This is an example of...
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Selective attention.
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What are organizing schemas?
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Mental frameworks that creat meaningful patterns from stimuli.
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Define prototype.
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The most representative or "best" example of something.
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Define stereotype.
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A generalization about a group or category of people.
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Define script.
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A predictable sequence of events that indicates what we are expected to do in a given situation.
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Define attribution.
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Assigning causes to people's behavior.
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Define self-concept.
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The sum total of everything that encompasses the self-referential term "me". It is a social construction, a product of interpersonal communication.
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Define self-esteem.
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The evaluative element of self-perception.
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Define self-serving bias.
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The tendency to attribute out successful behavior to ourselves (personal traits) but to assign external circumstances (situations) to our unsuccessful behavior.
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Define perceptual set.
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A mental predisposition to perceive a stimulus in a fixed way as the result of an expectation.
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Define self-disclosure.
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The process of purposely revealing to others information about ourselves that they otherwise would not know.
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Define breadth and depth in terms of self-disclosure.
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Breadth refers to the range of subjects discussed, while depth refers to how personal you become when discussing a particular subject.
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What are some guidelines for appropriate self-disclosure?
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-Trust
-Reciprocity -Cultural Appropriateness -Situational Appropriateness -Incremental Disclosure |
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Define the fundamental attribution error.
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To overemphasize personal characteristics and underemphasize situational causes of other people's behavior.
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perception is...
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inhrently subjective and selective
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