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| the significance we attach to phenomena such a swords actions people ect. |
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| active process of selecting organizing and interpreting people objects events ect. |
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| one acts in ways consistent with how one has learned to perceive oneself |
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| the theory that we organize and interpret experience by applying cognitive structures called schemata |
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| the best or most representative example |
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| allow us to position people and situations along bipolar dimensions of judgment |
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| predictive generalizations about people and situations |
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| subjective process of explaining perceptions to assign meaning to them |
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| explanations of why things happen and why people act as they do |
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| leads us to take excessive credit for what we do well and to not take responsibility for what we do poorly |
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| consists of beliefs values practices and ways of interpreting experience that are shared by a number of people |
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| claims that a culture includes a number of social community that have different degrees of social status and priviledge |
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| refers to the number, how abstract, and how elaborate the constructs shape perceptions |
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| person centered perception |
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| reflects cognitive complexity because it includes abstract thinking and a broad range of schemata |
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| ability to feel with another person what they feel |
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| assuming we understand what another person thinks or perceives |
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| groups of people who live within a dominate culture yet are also members of another group that are not dominant |
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| high context communication style |
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| a indirect and undetailed communication style |
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| low context communication style |
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| explicit and detailed communication style |
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| conceptions of what is true or valid |
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| generally shared views of what is good |
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| informal rules that guide how members of a culture act think and feel |
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| culture that evolves and change over time |
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| creation of tools ideas and practices |
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| borrowing from another culture |
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| adversity that brings about change in a culture |
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| putting ones ethnicity at the center of the universe |
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| cultures vary in how they think act behave believe and value |
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| attacking the cultural practices of others or claim our own are more superior |
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| when people give up their own ways and adopt the ways of dominant culture |
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| acceptance of differences even though we may not approve of or even understand them |
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| a response that differences are rooted in cultural teachings and that no customs traditions or behaviors are intrinsically better than others |
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| a response where we incorporate some of the practices and values of other groups into our own lives |
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| able to speak and think in more than one language |
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| overall feeling between people that arises largely out of the way people communicate |
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| revelation of personal information about ourselves that others are unlikely to discover on their own |
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| nodding head or facial expressions to indicate that we are listening |
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| accepting anothers feelings or thoughts as valid |
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| when people who depend on each other to have different views interests or goals and perceive their differences as incompatible |
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| when people express differences in a straightforward manner |
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| when partners deny or disguise disagreement or anger and express is indirectly |
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