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| Intrapersonal Communication |
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| communication within one's self |
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-Make sense of people/world through 3 mental processes
-(1)Attention
-(2) Organization
-(3) Make interpretations |
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-ex) not possible to hear everything a teacher says in class
-Perception is selective |
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| Internal Factors Affecting attention |
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-(1) Physiological Filters (limitations of our senses)
-(2)Psychological Filters (motivation or interest; past experiences or expectations) |
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| External Factors affecting attention |
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ex) Guy in the red standing out and is in focus in the picture
-salience: stimulus that stands out from the others (visual contrast, sound, movement, etc)
-vividness: stimulus provokes emotional response (picture vs text form) |
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-perception is structured
-ex) picture of lines and ovals- particular shap, give it a name
-Proximity: we perceive separate stimuli as related if close to each other
-Similarity: we perceive stimuli as related is similar to each other
-closure: we see incomplete patterns as complete (circle)
-Figure ground: we perceive images as having an object (figure) and background (ground)
--ex) vase face pictures |
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perception is evaluated
-we interpret to make sense of our perceptions and draw conclusions |
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| Perceiving The Social World |
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-How do we understand ourselves and each other?
--we simplify the complex info we perceive
--biases influence our conclusions when we try to simplify |
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| Impression Formation Formation Process |
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-The way we combine information to get a sense of a person
-attend to some info; not all (ex)overlook red flags)
-Organize info into a weighted average(not all info weighted equally) |
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| Impression Formation Formation Process |
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-The way we combine information to get a sense of a person
-attend to some info; not all (ex)overlook red flags)
-Organize info into a weighted average(not all info weighted equally) |
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| What info get's the greatest weight? |
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-info about stable traits
-info from a credible source
-info we receive first
-info about extreme unusual behavior
-info about negative traits
-info about "central" traits
--ex)Person A vs Person B character traits:"warm or cold" |
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| Biases in Impression formation |
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-Halo effect
-Contrast effect
-stereotyping |
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| Biases in Impression formation |
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-Halo effect
-Contrast effect
-stereotyping |
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| -initial impression (pos or neg) influences how we weigh other information |
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| -impressions influenced by what just came beforehand |
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| -assume a person has certain traits or behaviors b/c of group membership |
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-normal to categorize the world and divide into "us" and "them"
-minimizes cognitive work |
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-BIRG: bask in reflected glory= benefit from people (sports fans)
-CORF: cut off reflected failure= band wagon fans |
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| -assign explanations to people's behavior to internal(personality) or external(beyond control) causes |
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-positive outcomes caused by internal factors
-negative outcomes caused by external factors |
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