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| A unique human ability to develop and coomunicate representation of oneself to others through language |
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| The act of perceiving stimuli in your enviroment |
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| The act of choosing specific stimuli in your enviroment to focus on |
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| Converting information into convenient, understandable, and effcient patterns that allow us to make sense of what we have observed |
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| The perceptual process of filling in missing information |
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| Attaching meaning to what is attended to, selected, and organized |
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| Indirect perception checking |
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| Using your own perceptual abilities to seek additional information to confirm or refute your interpretations of someone's behavior |
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| Direct perception checking |
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| Asking someone else whether your interpretations of what you perceive are correct |
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| The process of redifining events and experiences from a different point of view |
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