Exam 4: Communicating, Perceiving, and Understanding

People who lived through the Great Depression may perceive resources as being scarcer than others do. This is an example of how the ________ affects perception.

Identify and give an example of three ways that you can improve your perception skills.

Elton snapped at a waitress when she delivered the wrong entrée. According to the concept of ________, he is likely to make ________ attributions for his own behavior.

When it comes to sexual attraction, on average, men have a keener sense of smell than women, thus influencing the perception process.

Your organizational structures are also called ________ and tell you what information belongs together and how to understand what you perceive.

Which of the following is an aspect of the perception process?

Gretchen is on a first date with Jim. She is surprised to learn that he wants to have children and be a stay-at-home dad because she believed that men preferred careers to family life. She has been overgeneralizing or ________ men.

Organization is the part of the perception process that involves focusing on a narrow range of the information available in your environment.

The tendency to view one's own group as the standard against which all other groups should be measured or judged is called _____.

Researchers believe that ________ is pervasive because it serves specific functions, the two most important of which are ego-defensive functions and value-expressive functions.

Your ________ refers to the specific position you hold in a society.

Research has established that when people perceive others as attractive, they treat them better than those viewed as less attractive.

By the end of this course, you will possess more categories or constructs with which you can understand human communication. This increase in categories or constructs is also referred to as _____.

When you meet a new person, you have a mental map that guides you in how to greet and introduce yourself to them. These mental maps are called _____.

Ronald is at the grocery store. He sees the girl behind him with a cart full of candy, chips, and soda, and mentally identifies her as an unhealthy person. He is using the ________ aspect of the categorization part of the perception process.