Term
|
Definition
| selecting, organizing, and interpreting information from our senses |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| first step of perception; involves focusig attention on certain sights, sounds, tastes, touches or smells in our environment |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the degree to which particular people or aspects of their communication attract our attention |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| second step of perception; taking the information you have selected and structure it into a coherent pattern inside your mind |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| structuring the information you've selected into a chronological sequence that matches how you experienced the order of events |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| third step of perception; assigning meaning to information we've selected |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| mental structures containing information defining concepts' characterstics as well as those characterstics' interrelationships |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| created explanations for for others' comments or behaviors |
|
|
Term
| fundamental attribution error |
|
Definition
| the tendency to attribute others' behaviors to internal causes (the kind of person they are) rather than teh social or environmental forces affecting them |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the tendency of people to make external attributions regarding their own behaviors |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a tendency for taking credit for a noteworthy success by making an internal attribution |
|
|
Term
| Uncertainty Reduction Theory |
|
Definition
| theory that states our primary compulsion during initial interactions is reducing uncertainty about our conversational partners, by gathering enough information about them taht their conmmunication is rendered precitable and explainable |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| people with whom you share the same cultural, beliefs, attitudes, and values and consider them to be fundamentally similar to yourself |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| people who aren't fundamentally similar to yourself |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an individual's characertistic way of thinking, feeling, and acting, based on the traits that he or she posses |
|
|
Term
| implicit personality theories |
|
Definition
| the information we have about different types of personalities and the ways in which traits cluster together |
|
|
Term
| interpersonal impressions |
|
Definition
| mental pictures of who people are and how we feel about them |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a general and global impression of a person that's either positive or negative |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| when Gestalts are formed they are more likely to be positive than negative |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| we place emphasis on the negative information we learn about others |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| tendency to positively interpret nearly everything someone says or does because we have a positive Gestalt of them |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| tendency to negatively interpret nearly everything someone says and does because we have a negative Gestalt of them |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an impression of someone based on carefully evaluating each new thing we learn about a person |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| preceptually categorizing people into a social group and them evaluating them based on information we have in our mental schemata related to this group |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| we "feel into" others' thoughts adn emotions, making an attempt to identify with them |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
a five step process in which you apply everything you apply to your perception of others
1) Check your punctuation
2) Check your knowledge
3) Check your attributions
4) Check personal influences
5) Check your impressions |
|
|
