Com 100- Ch. 2- Perception

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Perception

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an active process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting people, objects, events, situations, and activities

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constructivism

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theory that states that we organze and interpret exerience by applying cognitive structures called schemata

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cognitive schemata

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mental structures people use to organzie and interpret experience (4 types)

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prototypes

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knowledge structures that define the clearest or most representative examples of some category

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personal constructs

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bipolar mental yardsticks that allow us to measure people and situations along specific dimesions of judgement

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stereotypes

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predictive generalizations about people and situations

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scripts

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expected or appropriate sequences of action in particular settings

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interpretation

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the subjective process of organzing and making sense of perception

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attribution

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account that explains why things happen and why people act as they do...not always correct interpretations of others and their motives

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self-serving bias

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tendency to attribute our positive actions and successes to stable, global, internal influences that we control and to attribute negative actions and failures to unstable, specific, external influences beyond our control

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positive visualization

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a technique for reducing speaking anxiety in which people visualize themselves communicating effectively in progressively challenging speaking situations

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cognitive complexity

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determined by the # of contructs used, how abstract they are, and how elaborately they interact to create perceptions

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person centeredness

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the ability to perceive another as a unique and distinct individual apart from social roles and generalizations

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emathy

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ability to feel with another person-to feel what he/she feels in a situation

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culture

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beliefs, understandings, practices, and ways of interpreting experiences that are shared by a # of people

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individualism

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pronounced western value that holds that each person is unique and important and should be recognized for his/her individual activities

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mind reading

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assuming that we understand what another person thinks or how another person perceives something

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inference

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an interpretation that goes beyond the facts known

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monitoring

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the capacity to observe and regulate your communication