COM110 Lesson 2 Key Terms Flashcards
Social comparison
The process by which you compare yourself (for example, your abilities, opinions, and values) with others and then assess and evaluate yourself on the basis of the comparison; one of the sources of self-concept.
Self-concept
Your self-image; the view you have of who you are.
Self-awareness
The degree to which you know yourself.
Johari Window
A diagram of the four selves (open, blind, hidden, and unknown).
Self-disclosure
The process of revealing something about yourself to another; usually refers to information that you’d normally keep hidden.
Dyadic effect
The tendency for the behaviors of one person to stimulate similar behaviors of one person’s self-disclosures to prompt the other to self-disclose.
Self-acceptance
Being satisfied with yourself, your virtues and vices, your abilities and limitations.
Perception
The process by which you become aware of objects and events through your senses.
Interpersonal perception
The perception of people; the processes through which you interpret people and evaluate their behavior.
Stages of Perception
1) Stimulation, 2) organization, 3) interpretation-evaluation, 4) memory, 5) recall.
Implicit personality theory
A theory of personality, complete with rules about what characteristics go with what other characteristics, that you maintain and through which you perceive others.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
The situation in which you make a prediction or prophecy and fulfill it yourself. For example, expecting a person to be hostile, you act in a hostile manner toward this person, thus confirming your prophecy that the person will be hostile.
Sterotype
In communication, a fixed impression of a group of people through which you then perceive specific individuals. Stereotypes are most often negative but also may be positive.
Attribution
The process by which you assign causation or motivation to a person’s behavior.
schemata
Mental templates or structures that help you organized the millions of items of information that you come into contact with every day as well as those that you already have in your memory.
