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| is the active process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting people, objects, events, situations, and activities. (kind vs not kind) |
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| Which 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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| a knowledge structure that defiens the best or the most representative example of some category |
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| mental yardsticks that allow us to position people and situations along bipolar dimensions of judgment. |
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| predicitve generalizations about people and situations |
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| guides to action based on what we've experienced and observed. A script consists of a sequence of a activities that define what we and others are expected to do in specific situations |
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| the 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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| if we have an argument with a romantic partner, we're likely to perceive taht person's behaviors as unreasonable or wrong and to see ourselves as reasonable and right. |
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| consists of beliefs, values, understandings, 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 communities that have different degrees of social status and privilege. |
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| refers to the number of constructs used, how abstract they are, and how elaborately they interact to shape perceptions. |
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| person-centered perception |
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| the ability to perceive others as a unique and distinct individual |
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| the ability to feel with another person |
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| assuming we understand what another person thinks or perceives |
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| Tanisha did well on her communication exam and attributed her performance to her being smart. She didn’t do as well as she had hoped on her psychology exam. She blamed her poor psychology exam score on her professor’s notes and refusal to give study guides. Which of the following is true about Tanisha’s attributions? |
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| a. She exhibited a self-serving bias in her attributions about her performance on both exams |
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| is part of everything we think, do, feel, and believe. It is a system of ideas, values, beliefs, structures, and practices that is communicated by one generation to the next and that sustains a particular way of life. |
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| groups of people who live iwthin a dominant culture yet also are members of another group or groups taht are not dominant in a particular society |
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| high context communication style |
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| people that are deeply interconnected, they do not feel it is necessary to spell everything out in explicit detail. They assume that others share enough of their world to understand indirect communication. |
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| Low context communication style |
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| they spell things out, and are detailed and precise |
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| conception of what is true, facutal, or valid. |
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| Generally shared biews of what is good, right, worthwhile, and important with regard to conduct and existence |
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| informal rules that guide how members of a culture act, as well as how they think and feel. (when salad is eaten) |
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| is the creation of tools, ideas, and practices. (wheel) |
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| borrowing from another culture. (food language) |
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| adversity that brings a change in culture. (disasters, war can alter patterns of life for the future) |
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| use of one's own culture and its practices as the standard for interpreting the values, beliefs, norms and communication of other cultures. put our own ethnicity at the center of the universe. |
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| recognizes that cultures vary in how they think, act, and behave as well as in what they believe and value. Something weird in our culture can be natural in a different culture. |
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| occurs when we attach the cultural practices of others or proclaim that our own cultural traditions are superior. resistance rejects the value and validity of anything that differs from what is familiar. |
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| occurs when people give up their own ways and adopt the ways of the dominant culture |
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| the acceptance of differences even though we may not approve of or even understand them |
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| that differences are rooted in cultural teachings and that no customs, traditions, or behaviors are intrinsically better than any others |
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| overall feeling between people that arises largely out of the ways people communicate with each other . its the overall feeling or emotional mood between people |
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| the revelation of personal information about ourselves that others are unlikely to discover on their own. when we share private information about ourselves |
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| information taht others know about us but we dont know about ourselves |
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| information that we know about ourselves but choose not to reveal to most others |
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| let the other person that we know they exist by greeting |
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| we do this by nodding our head using facial expression to indicate that we are listening |
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| involves accepting others feelings or thoughts as valid. |
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| exists when people who depend on each other 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 camouflage disagreement or anger and express it indirectly |
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| relying on the exit response to conflict and resuing to discuss issues. When people stonewall, they block the possibility of resolving conflicts. |
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