Exam 3: Interpersonal Communication and Perception

When you friend Susan forgets to call you on your 21st birthday, and you believe that she doesn't care that much about you over her explanation. Which barrier to accurate perception are you experiencing?

Based on your acquaintance with one member of the campus Camera Club, you draw conclusions about all of the other members of the club.You are experiencing which of the barriers to accurate perception?

Explain selective attention, selective exposure, and selective recall and their effects on how we perceive.

Give an example that demonstrates the difference between passive and active perception.

What is standpoint theory, and how does it explain why people with differing cultural backgrounds have different perceptions of others' behaviours? Give an example.

What was documented in Solomon Asch's famous study on impression formation theory?

________ is the process of making sense out of stimuli by grouping, dividing, organizing, separating, and categorizing information.

Attributing to the person means

Observing a small slice of someone's behaviour and then making a generalization based on that behaviour is called

A woman observes what she believes is her husband flirting with the waitress at a restaurant where the couple is having dinner.The husband claims he only smiled at the waitress and that in any case, it was because his wife was acting angry anyway.The wife says she was angry because he was flirting.The disagreement about what happened can best be explained by which process in the organizing stage of the perception process.

Your own set of beliefs and hypotheses about what people are like represent

Explain how impression formation, implicit personality theory, the use of constructs, and attribution theories are related.

When we overestimate the consistency and constancy of others' behaviours we are

Organizing stimuli makes it possible for us to

________ allow us to categorize people into one or two groups of opposites.

When you blame the other person and assume that the cause of the problem was something personally controllable rather than something uncontrollable, you are

According to the barrier, when imposing consistency,

People are more likely to save face by believing that they are not the cause of a problem. This is called

You tend to explain the motives for a person's actions on the basis of the most obvious information rather than on in-depth information we might have.Which of the barriers to accurate perception is influencing you?

When we are typically unwilling to make sufficient effort to understand another person's circumstances we are experiencing the barrier