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Cause of behavior attributed to internal or external factors:
- someone late due to procrastination (internal)
- someone late due to unexpected traffic (external) |
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Whether the cause of the behavior is stable or unstable
- Traffic on the 405 (stable)
- unexpected car accident (unstable) |
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Cause for behavior varies in how much control over the cause of the behavior.
- should set alarm earlier (controllable)
- car accident (uncontrollable) |
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We judge ourselves more charitably than we judge others
- success atrributed to stable internal causes
- failures attributed to unstable, external causes |
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| Fundamental attribution error |
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the tendency to attribute others behavior to internal rather than external causes
- homelessness |
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Perceptual Accuracy:
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| increase awareness of how you interpret situations |
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Perceptual Accuracy:
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| Focus on other peoples characteristics and consider context |
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Perceptual Accuracy:
Check perceptions: Direct perception checking |
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| ask if your perceptions are correct |
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Perceptual Accuracy:
Check perceptions: Indirect perception checking |
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| intensifying your "perceptual powers" look for additional information |
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Perceptual Accuracy:
Revise |
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| perceptions if needed. Admit you might be wrong |
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| symbols that represent other things |
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| Meanings change over time |
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| No clear definition of words. i.e. what is "affordable"? |
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| how spoken language sounds |
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| The literal meaning of a word |
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Context:
Positive: sweet, cool, hot
or negative: lame, crazy, retarded |
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| Language shapes the way you think. If you don't have a word for something, you can't conceive of it. |
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| Adapting your language to those around you |
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| speaking in a way that emphasizes differences |
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| speaking in a way that emphasizes similarity |
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| describing things in extremes with no middle ground |
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Judging someone else can be -
Positive: "you're a good person"
Negative: "you never call me" |
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| confusing. Start positive, end negative |
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| Take more responsibility. Less provocative |
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| study of movement, gestures, posture |
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messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.
60-70% of our language is NV.
More believable than words. |
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| NV cues that stand in for words: Shhh... |
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| gestures that enhance what you're saying. Head nodding, smiling. etc |
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| facial expressions showing emotions - microexpressions |
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| 1. happiness, 2. sadness, 3. anger, 4. fear, 5. surprise, 6. disgust, 7. contempt |
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| Recalling a visual memory |
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| eyes look to side, head tilt |
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| eyes look down and to the right |
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| Eyes look down and to the left |
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| study of space and distance |
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| our bubble or the distance we put between ourselves and others |
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| distance with those who are emotionally close (0-2') |
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ranges from 18" to 4'
distance between friends, family etc in public. |
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| 4'-12'; group dynamics, party, teach - class dynamic. |
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| furthest space, moving towards 12' |
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The space we claim when in the world, can be given up when socially expected to.
Bus, library, etc. |
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| controls pace of a conversation. |
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Self-touching behaviors;
used in specific situations, flirting |
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Eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes communicate respect, interest, anger, attraction.
Dilated pupils are "desired"
constricted pupils are "beady" |
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Socially acceptable, friendly.
Entire face |
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| sexual attraction, look up and down someones body |
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intimidation or pressure;
imagine a 3rd eye |
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intense eye contact w/squint
staring contest with someone
can be threatening |
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listening to learn
passive |
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| Analyzing, forming an opinion; voting, arguing |
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feeling with someone - understanding what someone is going through
Fuels connection |
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| kinda listening - (the repeat story) |
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| to pretend or fake listening |
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| only paying attention to what you THINK is important |
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| the conversation always circles back to them |
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| feels like they are always being attacked |
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| Samuel L. Jackson clip. Someone is "ready for a fight" |
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| Only listens to actual words, incapable of hearing subtext, sarcasm, etc. |
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| relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself |
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Development of self-concept:
Physical |
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| begin to develop self-concepts at 6-7 months |
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Development of self-concept:
Social interaction |
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shapes our perceptions:
those who are important shape us
1st significant influence is family |
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labels we use to define behavior:
Positive direct - enhances self-esteem
negative direct - hurts self-esteem
Gender roles - how are kids raised |
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Reflected appraisal:
uppers
downers
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other people serve as our mirrors and affects how we see ourselves:
people who support, communicate positively about our weaknesses
people who draw attention to our flaws, maybe unintentionally
people who attack with malice |
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consistently attentive and loving
child has high self-esteem
social |
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the caregiver is negative, rejecting, abusive
child feels unworthy of love
adult can be insecure in relationships
can become violent |
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parent is disinterested
*child has high self-esteem/independent
*feels relationships are not important |
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inconsistent treatment
*child becomes anxious
*child self-blames |
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| Sandra Petronio's Communication Privacy Boundry Management Theory |
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You disclose personal information when you feel safe.
perceived positive result - disclose
perceived negative result - will not disclose |
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| unearned benefit determined by society |
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| only one aspect of your ID matters |
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| Intersectionality - interlocking oppressions |
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| all aspects of your ID matter |
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-focus on somethings, tune others out
-notice things that are intense and stand out; sounds - smells
-notice contrast or change
-recognize repeated behavior, songs, others manners |
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4 types -
prototypes - most representative of a category: a good teacher, friend, partner
Personal constructs - how we measure people and situations: intelligent, nice, responsible
Stereotypes - generalization about a person or situation
Scripts - guides our behavior |
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