Chapter 3: Comm And Perception Flashcards
Perception
Process of experiencing the world and making sense out of what you experience
Interpersonal perception
Process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting your observations of other people
Passive perception
Perception that occurs without conscious effort, simply in response to ones surroundings.
Active perception
Perception that occurs because you seek out specific info through intentional observation and questioning
Selective perception
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
Selective attention
Process of focusing on specific stimuli, locking on to some things in the environment and ignoring others
Selective exposure
Tendency to put ourselves in situations that reinforce our attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviors.
Selective recall
Process that occurs when we remember things we want to remember and forget or repress things that are unpleasant, uncomfortable, or unimportant to us.
Thin slicing
Observing as small sample of someone’s behavior and then making a generalization about what the person is like, based on the sample
Cognition schema
A mental framework used to organize and categorize human experiences
Superimpose
To place a familiar structure on information you select
Punctuation
Process of making sense out of stimuli by grouping, dividing, organizing, separating, and categorizing info.
Closure
Process of filling in missing information or gaps in what we perceive
What is the interpersonal perception process?
Selecting, organizing, interpreting
Selecting
We select certain sensations on which to focus awareness
Organizing
We assemble stimuli into convenient and efficient patterns
Interpreting
We assign meaning to what we have observed
Impressions
Collection of perceptions about others that you maintain and use to interpret their behaviors
Construct
Bipolar quality or continuum used to classify people
Primacy effect
Tendency to attend to the first pieces of info observed about another person in order to form an impression
Predicted outcome value theory (POV)
People predict the future of a relationship based on how they size up someone during their first interaction
Recency effect
Tendency to attend to the most recent information observed about another person in order to form or modify an impression
Halo effect
Attributing positive qualities to those you like
Horn effect
Attributing negative qualities to those you dislike