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| Selecting information to focus our attention on. |
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| Focusing our attention on certain sights, sounds, tastes, touches, or smells in our environment. |
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| The degree to which particular people or aspects of their communication attract our attention. These can include a person's comment, facial expression or action. |
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| A chronological sequence that matches how you experience the order of events. You determin which words and actions occured first, second and so on which comments or behaviors caused subsquent actions to occur. |
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Mental structors that contain information defining the characteristics pf various concepts as well as how those characteristics are related to each other.
EXAMPLE: A wife having a schemata for "marriage proposal" and that allowed her to correctly interpret her boyfriends actions. |
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The answers to the "why" questions we ask everyday.
EXAMPLE: "why didnt my partner return my text message?" |
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| Fundamental attricution error |
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| The tendency to attribute others' behaviors solely to internal causes (the kind of person they are) rather than the social and environmental forces affecting them. |
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| the tendency of people to make external attributions regarding their own behaviors |
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Taking credit for the success by making an internal attricution
EXAMPLE: Getting a friend to lend you a car. You think of yourself as a good charmer rather than your friend just being generous |
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| Implicit personality theories |
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| Personal beliefs about different types of personalities and the ways in which traits clustor together. |
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| A general sense of a person that is either positive or negative. |
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| Interpersonal Impressions |
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| Mental pictures of who people are and how we feel about them. |
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| When gestalts are formed in a postive way. |
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| When we create gestalts and do not treat all information that we learned about the person as equally important and emphasis on the negative information. |
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| The tendency to postitively interpret nearly anything someone says or does becuse we have a positive gestalt of them. |
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| The tendency to negatively interpret the communication and behavior of people for whom we have negative gestalts. |
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| Comparing and assessing the positive and negative things we learn about a person in order to calculate an overall impression, then modifying this impression as we learn new information. |
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| When we "feel into" others' thoughts and emotions and make an attempt to identify with them. |
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| Categorizing people into a social group and then evaluating them based on information we have in our schemata related to this group. |
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| Rearranging your thought-patterns and tossing aside any previous conclusions. |
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