Chp 2

Question 1

The process of actively selecting, organizing, and interpreting people, objects, events, situations, and activities

Answer 1

Perception

Question 2

Perception is an ___ process

Answer 2

Active

Question 3

Perception consist of three processes

Answer 3

Selecting, organizing and interpreting

Question 4

And expectation or judgment of ourselves brought about by our own actions

Answer 4

Self fulfilling prophecy

Question 5

The theory that we organize and interpret experience by applying cognitive structures, called schemata

Answer 5

Constructivism

Question 6

Cognitive structures we used to organize and interpret experience

Answer 6

Schemata

Question 7

We use four kinds of cognitive schemata to make sense of phenomena

Answer 7

1) Proto types
2) personal constructs
3) stereotypes
4) scripts

Question 8

A knowledge structure that defines the clearest or most representative example of some category

Answer 8

Prototype

Question 9

A bipolar mental yardstick that allows us to measure people and situations a long specific dimensions of judgment

Answer 9

Personal constructs

Question 10

A predictive generalization about people in situations

Answer 10

Stereotypes

Question 11

This defines an expected or appropriate sequence of action in a particular setting

Answer 11

Scripts

Question 12

The subjective process of evaluating and explaining perceptions

Answer 12

Interpretation

Question 13

A casual account that explains why A thing happened or why someone act a certain way

Answer 13

Attributions

Question 14

Attributions have 4 dimensions

Answer 14

1) locus
2) stability
3) scope
4) responsibility

Question 15

This attributes what a person does to either internal factors or external factors

Answer 15

Locus

Question 16

This explains actions as resulting either from stable factors that won’t change or from temporary, and staple factors

Answer 16

Stability

Question 17

This defines behavior as part of a global pattern or a specific instance

Answer 17

Scope

Question 18

This attributes behaviors either two factors people can control or to ones they cannot

Answer 18

Responsibility

Question 19

The 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

Answer 19

Self serving bias

Question 20

Perception involves three interrelated processes

Answer 20

1) selection
2) organization
3) interpretation

Question 21

Beliefs, understandings, practices, and ways of interpreting experience that are shared by a number of people

Answer 21

Culture

Question 22

The theory that the culture include social groups that differently shape the knowledge, identities, and opportunities of members Of those groups, which could lead to political consciousness

Answer 22

Standpoint theory

Question 23

The number of constructs used, how abstract they are, and how elaborately they interact to create perceptions

Answer 23

Cognitive complexity

Question 24

The ability to perceive another as a unique and distinct individual apart from social rules and generalizations

Answer 24

Person centered perception

Question 25

The ability to feel with another person or to feel with that person feels in a given situation

Answer 25

Empathy

Question 26

Name the four influences on perception

Answer 26

1) physiology 2) culture 3) roles 4) cognitive abilities

Question 27

What are the two connections between social media and perception

Answer 27

1) our choices of social media shape our Perceptions of events, issues, and people 2) Membership and social communities can affect what we say and post on social media

Question 28

Assuming that we understand what another person thinks or how another person perceive something

Answer 28

Mind reading