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39 Cards in this Set
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Perception |
the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through your senses |
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Interpersonal perception process |
selecting, organizing, and interpreting your observations of other people |
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4 Stages in which we engage perception |
Selecting organizing interpreting impressions |
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4 ways of how we process what we select |
Selective perception selective attention selective exposure selective recall |
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Selective perception |
when you have all kinds of stimuli around you but you intellectually select what you want to perceive
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Selective Attention |
focusing on specific stimuli and ignoring others |
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Selective Exposure |
Our tendency to put ourselves in situations that reinforce our attitudes, beliefs, values or behaviors |
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Selective Recall |
when we remember things we want to remember and forget or repress things that we dont |
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Thin Slicing |
observing a small sample of someone's behavior and then making a generalization about what the person is like |
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We organize our world by |
creating categories linking the categories together then seeking closure by filling in the gaps |
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one of the ways we create categories is to |
superimpose |
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Superimpose |
we look for the familiar in the unfamiliar by using a framework that we are already familiar with to interpret information Ex: stars shaped like a bunny |
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we link the categories though a process called |
punctuation |
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Punctuation |
the process of making sense out of the stimuli by furthering categorizing the information EX: phone number |
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Closure |
filling in missing information or gaps in what we perceive |
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As you interpret |
your trying to make sense out of the information you receive and begin to create impressions |
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Impressions |
collections of the perceptions you built |
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Impression formation theory |
we form general impressions of others based on general physical qualities, behaviors, and disclosed information Ex: categorizing someone as nice |
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Passive Perception |
perception that occurs without any conscious effort, simply in response to one's surroundings |
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Active Perception |
perception that occurs because you seek out specific information through intentional observation questioning |
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Uncertainty Reduction theory |
we seek information in order to reduce that uncertainty of someone thus receiving control and predictability |
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Implicit Personality Theory |
how we organize and interpret our perceptions of people's personalities |
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Construct |
a bipolar quality used to classify people |
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Impressions can be |
what we see, how we feel, and what we hear |
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Primacy Effect |
first impression |
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Recency Effect |
Last impression |
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Primacy Effect is fully supported by |
predicted outcome value theory
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Predicted Outcome Value Theory (POV)
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we can somehow predict the future of a relationship by first impression based on outcome of initial interaction |
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attribution theory |
we develop reasons to explain the behaviors of others |
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Casual Attribution Theory |
the cause of a person's actions as circumstance, a stimulus, or the person themselves Ex: he didn't go to class because his alarm didn't go off it was a makeup session he was bored by it |
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Standpoint Theory |
a person's social position, power, or cultural background influences how the person perceives the behavior of others |
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Intercultural Communication Theory |
our cultural experiences and backgrounds influences how we view the world
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Interpersonal perception barriers |
stereotypes
ignoring information impose consistency focus on the negative blame others avoid responsibility |
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Impose Consistency |
we see the world in a certain way and impose our ways onto other people |
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Fundamental attribution error |
when we think that a person's behavior is influenced by their actions and choices rather than by external causes |
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Self serving bias |
tendency to perceive our own behavior as more positive than others |
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Improving Interpersonal Perception |
be aware of our own personal perception barriers be mindful when engaged with another and be conscious of the moment Look at the big picture, don't thin slice become aware of others perceptions of us check your perceptions become other oriented |
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Indirect perception checking |
seeking additional information through passive perception to confirm or refute your interpretations |
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Direct perception checking |
asking straight out whether your interpretation of what you perceive is correct |
