Perception

Question 1

Perception definition and aspects

Answer 1

• Our ability to make sense of the world around us
• Sensory experience: full-body process
• Active process: involves active awareness
• Unique: our sense-making abilities are based on our own experiences
• Socially and culturally bound: based on our own cultural world
• Strongly influenced by communication: our perception is fluid and open to change and openness
• Involves continuous practice and improvement

Question 2

Aspects of the Sensory Experience

Answer 2

• Environmental stimuli: the brain gets information
  a) Attended stimuli: what we pay attention to
• Neural processing
• Organization: stimuli is organized into categories
• Interpretation: when we relate different organizational categories

Question 3

Organizational Schemas

Answer 3

• Implicit association
• Strength of associations: some are strong, helps us think about in-group/out-group status. Tells us about our sense of self.

Question 4

Implicit associations

Answer 4

Immediate ways of categorization

• ‘thin slicing’= based on cues
• Associations are often based on language acquisition, socialization, etc.
• Associations determine in-group/out-group status
• Ex: associating black people wig criminals

Question 5

Attribution Theory

Answer 5

• Deals with the way people infer causes to behavior

Three Causal Dimensions:
a) Locus: degree to which we determine the behavior or a person to be external/internal

b) Stability: degree to which judgment is based on something stable/unstable
c) Controllability: degree to which a person has control (controllable/uncontrollable)

Question 6

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 6

• When something positive happens, we attribute it to ourselves (internal)
• When something negative happens, we attribute it to someone else (external)
• self= external
• other= internal

Question 7

Self-Serving Bias

Answer 7

when positive things happen to us, we give ourselves more credit than we give others, but not succeeding= external

Question 8

self-concept

Answer 8

deeply held beliefs about what/who we are

-this is hard to change

Question 9

Looking glass self

Answer 9

how others around us shape the way we see ourselves

- Ex: someone tells you you are funny. Then you try to act in a way that will make other people think you’re funny.

Question 10

self-fulfilling prophecies

Answer 10

We want to make ourselves seem like what we want to happen.

Ex: want a job and think you did well at interview, act like you should get it.

Question 11

The Johari Window

Answer 11

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Question 12

Impression formation: what are the two concepts?

Answer 12

• Gestalt

- Algebraic Continuum

Question 13

Impression formation: Gestalt

Answer 13

• relies solely in implicit associations (immediate ways of categorization)
• Instantaneous
• Previous information/experience colors impression

Question 14

Impression formation: Algebraic/Continuum

Answer 14

• As we have contact with someone we may alter our immediate impression
• Adding and taking away as new information comes in. as we continue to have contact, add and take away judgments.