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Interpersonal perception
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the process of understanding or making sense of sensory experiences.
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selecting, organizing and interpreting our observations.
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directing attention to specific stimuli.
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ignoring specific stimuli.
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Interpersonal perception
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directing our attention to specific stimuli.
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interpreting what others are like.
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the arousal of any of our senses.
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ignoring specific stimuli.
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creating halos and horns.
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interpreting information gained passively and actively.
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balancing the primacy and recency effects.
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selecting, organizing, and interpreting information.
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of focusing on specific stimuli.
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of putting ourselves in situations that reinforce our attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviours.
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that occurs when we remember things we want to remember and forget or repress things that are uncomfortable, unpleasant, or unimportant to us.
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of observing a small sample of someone's behaviour and then making a generalization about what the person is like based on that sample.
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of focusing on specific stimuli.
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of putting ourselves in situations that reinforce our attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviours.
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that occurs when we remember things we want to remember and forget or repress things that are uncomfortable, unpleasant, or unimportant to us.
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of observing a small sample of someone's behaviour and then making a generalization about what the person is like based on that sample.
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attribute positive qualities to individuals we like.
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direct our attention to specific stimuli.
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give meaning to the stimuli we select.
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process complex information.
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making sense of stimuli by grouping, dividing, organizing, separating, and categorizing information.
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filling in missing information.
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placing a familiar structure on information you select.
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observing a small sample of someone's behaviour and then making a generalization about what the person is like, based on that sample.
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practising selective exposure.
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practising selective recall.
Presentation on theme: "Perception and Communication Chapter 3. The Process of Human Perception Perception: the active process of creating meaning by selecting, organizing, and."— Presentation transcript:
1 Perception and Communication Chapter 3
2 The Process of Human Perception Perception: the active process of creating meaning by selecting, organizing, and interpreting people, objects, events, situations and other phenomena
3 Selection We select to attend to certain stimuli based on a number of factors: The qualities of the phenomena Self-indication Our motives and needs Culture
4 Organization Constructivism – we organize and interpret experience by applying cognitive structures called schemata Prototype Personal construct Stereotype Script
5 Interpretation The subjective process of explaining our perceptions in ways that make sense to us Attributions Locus Stability Specificity Responsibility
6 Interpretation Continued Attributional Errors Self-serving bias Fundamental attribution error Fundamental attribution error
7 Influences On Perception Physiology Age Expectations Culture Social location Roles
8 Influences On Perception Continued Cognitive abilities Cognitive complexity Person-centeredness Self
9 Implicit Personality Theory A collection of unspoken and sometimes unconscious assumptions about how various qualities fit together in human personalities
10 Guidelines for Improving Perception And Communication Recognize that all perceptions
are partial and subjective Avoid mind reading Check perceptions with others Distinguish between facts and inferences Guard against the self-serving bias Guard against the fundamental attribution error Monitor labels
11 The Ladder of Abstraction
What is the process of selecting organizing and interpreting information?
Is the active process of selecting organizing and interpreting people objects Events situations and activities?
Term Perception | Definition active process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting people, objects, events, situations, and activities. process which we notice and make sense of phenomena. |
Term Empathy | Definition the ability to feel WITH another person -- to feel what he/she feels in a situation. |