Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
20 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
Perception
|
the active process of selecting, organizing and interpreting people, objects, events and activities.
|
|
Prototype
|
are knowledge structures that define the clearest or most representative examples of some category.
|
|
Personal Construct
|
is a mental yardstick that allows us to measure a person or situation along a bipolor dimension of judgment.
|
|
Positive Visualization
|
a technique used to enhance success in a variety of situations by teaching people to visualize themselfs positively.
|
|
Person-Centeredness
|
is the ability to pereceive distinctions between people.
|
|
Culture
|
consists of beliefs, values, understandings,
|
|
Social Community
|
is a group of people who are part of an overall society.
|
|
Empathy
|
the ability to feel with another person, to feel what he or she FEELs in a situation.
|
|
Mind Reading
|
means assuming we understand what another person thinks or feels.
|
|
Judgement
|
is a belief or opinion that is based on observations, feelings, assumptions or other phenomena that are NOT facts.
|
|
Inference
|
is a deduction that goes beyond what you know or assume to be a fact.
|
|
Interpretation
|
is the subjective process of creating explanations for what we observe & experience.
|
|
Self-Serving Bias
|
are tendencies we construct, attributions that serve our personal interests.
|
|
Selection
|
we notice things that stand out or that have changed.
|
|
Stereotype
|
is a predictive generalization about a person or situtation.
|
|
Script
|
is a sequence of activities that spells out how we and others are expected to act in specific situtations.
|
|
Social Roles
|
shape our pereceptions and our communication.
|
|
Attribution
|
the act of explaining why someting happens or why a person acts a particular way.
|
|
Constructivism
|
is a theory that holds, that we organize & interpet experience by applying cognitive structures...called cognitive schemata (aka schemata).
|
|
Cognitive Abilities
|
influence our perception of others.
|