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Cards In This Set
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What are the three steps in perception?
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Selecting, organizing, and interpreting
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What does perception do for us?
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Selects, organizes, and interprets sensory stimuli into a meaningful and coherent picture of the world.
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How do we 'select' stimuli?
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We "choose" what to attend to on the basis of needs, interests, intensity, and expectation/prediction.
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Why do we 'select' stimuli?
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Why do we tend to stereotype and label?
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Because it is human nature. We judge other people based on past experiences with those people and/or other people we "categorize" them with.
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How does or self-concept/self-esteem affect our communication with others?
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The umbrella of 'self'--"Almost all of our communication reveals something about us"Self-monitoring. Being aware of yourself and understanding your values, attitudes, and behaviors as they relate to your own behaviors, personality, and communication style and the impact on others.
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How might we improve our social perceptions?
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Impression management, role-taking, uncertainty reduction, and cultural, sociological, and psychological.
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Two steps of organizing 'sensory stimuli'
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Cognitive structure:Classify & Categorize
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Frame of Reference
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The part of the mental program we refer to most often
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Classifying and Categorizing(3)
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-to keep order-to predict what will occur in certain situations-to help us know how to behave and communicate in differing circumstances and situations.
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Schemas
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Experiences in situations and contexts.... having been in a situation and knowing what to do.
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Scripts
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Repeating patterns of communications... the things we say over & over again.
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Prototypes
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Our views of people and the roles they fulfill... what you generally view of people and the roles they fulfill, so you know how to act.
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Stereotyping
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"simplified standardized conceptions (predictions) about the characteristics or expected behavior of members of an identifiable group"-stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination
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Static evaluation
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Assume that people don't change
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