Exam 2: D: Perceiving the Self and Others

Factors such as age and race can have a strong influence on our perception.

When you assess your communication competence as sufficient or acceptable, you are feeling a sense of self-actualization.

Low-self-monitors lack the communication skills needed to form satisfying interpersonal relationships.

Spending time on Facebook may contribute to a distorted perception of the quality of one's own life.

Telling your new coworker that you prefer the color blue to red would count as self-disclosure but is not going to create much intimacy because it has so little depth.

A student's choice of a major would probably be related to his or her feelings of self-efficacy.

Self-esteem refers only to the positive feelings one has about oneself.

A teenage basketball player who purchases the shoes his favorite professional athlete endorses is probably making this choice because of the fundamental attribution error.

Stereotypes by definition are negative and unflattering.

Communicators who have a low level of sensitivity to feedback are likely to incorporate others' feedback into their self-concept and modify their behavior based on that feedback.

Imagine that your mother watched a horror film in which young people visiting a foreign country are abducted and killed. You tell her that you are interested in studying abroad next term and she begins to fret that something terrible will happen to you. Her perceptual challenge is caused by undue influence.

Selective perception is a challenge to our perception but is also usually active, critical thought.

Self-esteem may be positive with regard to one attribute and negative with regard to a different attribute.

When Michaela is not asked to interview for the part-time job she wants at her favorite store, she says, "I guess it's all about who you know and not what you know." Michaela's perception can be attributed to the self-serving bias.

Attributing the success of a rival team to the referees making bad calls during the game may be an example of the fundamental attribution error influencing our perception.

Self-efficacy can be defined as a prediction that causes an individual to alter his or her behavior in a way that makes the prediction more likely to occur.

Communication researchers believe that social interaction is a key aspect in developing one's self-concept.

When Bo gets in line to use the cash machine, he would use a schema to make choices about behaviors such as where to stand, where to look, and what to say.

"Men don't like to talk about their feelings" is an example of a stereotype.

Research cited in the text finds that people who have high self-esteem are more likely than those who have low self-esteem to desire public signs of affection from their relational partners.