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Chapter 3
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
02/04/2014

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Perception
Definition
The process by which we make sense out of experience
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Selective Perception
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The means of interpreting experience in a way that comforms to one's beliefs and convictions
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Selective Exposure
Definition
the tendency to expose oneself to information that reaffirms existing attitudes, beliefs, and values
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selective attention
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the tendency to focus on certain cues and ignore others
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selective retention
Definition
the tendency to remember those things that reinforce one's way of thinking and forget those that oppose one's way of thinking
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figure-ground principle
Definition
a strategy that facilitates the organization of stimuli by enabling us to focus on diffrent stimuli alternately
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perceptual schemata
Definition
constructs used to organize perceptions
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closure
Definition
the tendency to fill in missing preceptual pieces to percieve a complete world
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self-awareness
Definition
the ability to reflect on and monitor one's own behavior
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self-concept
Definition
everything one thinks and feels about oneself
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self-image
Definition
the sortĀ of person one perceives oneself to be
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bullying
Definition
persintent teasing, name calling, or social exclusion
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self-efficacy
Definition
an optimistic belief in one's own competence
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self-fulfilling prophecy
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a prediction or an expectation that comes true simply beacuse one acts as if it were true
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Pygmation effect
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the principle that we fulfill the expectation of others
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Galatea effect
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the principle that we fulfill our own expectations
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Johari window
Definition
a model containing four panes that is used to explain the roles that self-awareness and self-disclosure play in realationships
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open area
Definition
the part of the self conatiining information known to both the self and others
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blind area
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the part of the self known to others but not known to oneself
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hidden area
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the part of the self that contains information about the self known to oneself but that is hidden from others
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self-disclosure
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the process of revealing to another person information about the self that this person would not otherwise know
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unknown area
Definition
the part of the self that is unknown to oneself and others
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impression management
Definition
the creation of a postive image designed to influence others
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percieved self
Definition
the self we believe ourselves to be
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facework
Definition
the means used to present a public image
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presenting self
Definition
our public image
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high self-monitors
Definition
people highly attuned to impression manangement efforts
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low self-monitors
Definition
people who pay little attention to responses others have to them
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perceptual sets
Definition
expectations that produce a readiness to process experience in a predetermined way
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halo effect
Definition
the percieving of qualities that are primarily postive
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horn effect
Definition
the perceiving of qualities that are primarily negative
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first impressions
Definition
initial judgements about people
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predicted outcome value theory
Definition
the theory that we form realationships based on whether we believe they are worth it
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primacy effect
Definition
the ability of one's first impression to color subsequent impressions
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stereotype
Definition
a genmeralization about people, places, or events held by many memebers of a society
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prejudices
Definition
a biased, negative attitude toward a perticular group of people; a negative prejudgment based on memebership in a social category
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allness
Definition
the erronepus belief that any one person can know all there is to know about anything
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blindering
Definition
the process by which one unconciously adds restrictions that limit one's perceptual capabilities
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fact
Definition
that which is known to be true based on observation
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inference
Definition
an assuption with varying degrees of accuracy
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empathy
Definition
the experiencing of the world from a perspective other than our own
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cultural nearsightedness
Definition
the failure to understand that we do not all attribute tha same meanings to similar behavioarl clues
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idiocentric
Definition
exhibiting an indivualistic orientation
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distinctiveness theory
Definition
the theory stating that a person's own distinctive traits are more salient to him or her than are the more prevalent traits possed by others in the immediate enviroment
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cultivation theory
Definition
a theory propounded by George Gerber and colleagues focusing on mass media's ability to influence users' attitudes and perceptions of reality
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