Interpersonal Communication Chapter 3

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Perception

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Process of experiencing the world and making sense out of what you experience

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Interpersonal perception

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Process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting your observations of other people

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Selective perception

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Process of seeing, hearing, or making sense of the world around us based on such factors as our personality, beliefs, attitudes, hopes, fears, and culture, as well as what we like and don't like

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Selective attention

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Process of focusing on specific stimuli, walking on to some things in the environment and ignoring others

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Selective exposure

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Tendency to put ourselves in situations that reinforce our attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviors

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Selective recall

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Process that occurs when we remember things we want to remember and forget a repressed things that are unpleasant, uncomfortable or unimportant to us

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Thin slicing

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Observing a small sample of someone's behavior and then making a generalization about what the person is like, based on the sample

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Superimpose

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To place a familiar structure on information you select

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Punctuation

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Process of making sense out of stimuli by grouping, dividing, organizing, separating and categorizing information

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Closure

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Process of filling in missing information or gaps in what we perceive

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Impressions

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Collection of perceptions about others that you maintain and use to interpret their behaviors

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Impression formation theory

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Theory that explains how you develop perceptions about people and how you maintain and use those perceptions to interpret their behaviors

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Passive perception

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Perception that occurs without conscious effort, simply in response to one's surroundings

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Active perception

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Perception that occurs because you seek out specific information through intentional observation and questioning

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Implicit personality theory

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Your unique set of beliefs and hypotheses about what people are like

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Construct

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Bipolar quality used to classify people

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Uncertainty reduction theory

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Theory that claims people seek information in order to reduce uncertainty, this achieving control and predictability

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Primary effect

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Tendency to attend to the first pieces of information observed about another person in order to form an impression

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Predicted outcome value theory

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People predict the value of a relationship based on initial self-assessment compared to the potential cost and rewards of the relationship

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Recency effect

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Tendency to attend to the most recent information observed about another person in order to form or modify an impression

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Halo effect

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Attributing a variety of positive qualities to those you like

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Horn effect

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Attributing a variety of negative qualities to those you dislike

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Attribution theory

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Theory that explains how you generate explanations for people's behaviors

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Causal attribution theory

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Theory of attribution that identifies the cause of a person's actions as circumstance, stimuli, or the person himself or herself

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Standpoint theory

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Theory that a person's social position, power, or cultural background influence is House the person perceives the behavior of others

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Culture

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Learned system of knowledge, behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, values, and norms shared by a group of people

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Stereotype

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To place a person or group of persons into an inflexible, all-encompassing category

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Social identity model of deindividuation effects

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Theory that people are more likely to stereotype are those with whom they interact online, because such interactions provide fewer relationship cues and the cues take longer to emerge then they would in face to face interactions

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Fundamental attribution error

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Error that arise from attributing another person's behavior to internal, controllable causes rather than to external, uncontrollable causes

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Self-serving bias

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Tendency to perceive our own behavior as more positive than others behavior

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Mindful

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Conscious of what you are doing, thinking, and sensing at any given moment

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Indirect perception checking

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Seeking to passive perception such as observing and listening additional information to confirm or refute interpretations you are making

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Direct perception checking

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Asking for confirmation from the observed person of an interpretation or perception about him or her