Chapter 3-interpersonal Comm & 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 information through intentional observation and questioning. Ex, people watching, making assumptions about their personality and circumstances.
Three stages of interpersonal perception
- Selecting
- Organizing
- Interpreting
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, as well as what we like an don’t like.
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 I situations that reinforce our attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviors.
Selective recall
Process tha 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 a small sample of someone’s behavior and then making a generalization about what the person is like, based on the sample. Ex, looking on someone’s Facebook page.
Cognitive 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 information.
Closure
Process of filling in missing information or gaps in what we perceive.
Impressions
Collection of perceptions about others that you maintain and use to interpret their behavior.
