Quiz Ch. 3

Question 1

Steps of the Perception Process

Answer 1

Selection, Organization, Interpretation, Negotiation

Question 2

Traits of Selection

Answer 2

Intensity, repetition, contrasts change, motives, and our emotional state affect what we notice

Question 3

Trait of Organization

Answer 3

Perceptual Schema

Question 4

Schema is

Answer 4

mental frameworks, that help organize ideas/ information (organizes experience)

Question 5

Stereotyping

Answer 5

exaggerated beliefs associated with easily recognized but unimportant characteristics, and is ascribing a set of characteristics to most of all members of a group

Question 6

4 Types of Perceptual Schema (constructs)

Answer 6

Physical, role, interaction, psychological

Question 7

interpretation depends on what?

Answer 7

degree of involvement, relational satisfaction, past experiences, assumptions about human behaviour, expectations, knowledge of others

Question 8

Negotiation is based on

Answer 8

perception is not a solitary activity, exchange of stories in narratives, clash of narratives, shared narratives

Question 9

Attribution is

Answer 9

the process of attaching meaning to behaviour

Question 10

fundamental attribution is

Answer 10

the tendency to believe when you make an error its the environment, circumstances fault but when another person makes an error its based on a disposition in their personality/character

Question 11

Punctuation

Answer 11

the determination of causes and effects in a series of interactions

Question 12

interpretation

Answer 12

the process of attaching meaning to sense data

Question 13

empathy

Answer 13

recreating another persons perspective and experiencing the world from their point of view

Question 14

androgynous behaviour

Answer 14

possessing both masculine and feminine traits

Question 15

sympathy

Answer 15

feeling compassion for someone, but not experiencing that persons pov or emotions

Question 16

selection

Answer 16

a phase of the perception process in which the communicator attends to a stimulus from the environment. Also, a way communicators manage dialectical tensions by responding to one end of the dialectical spectrum and ignoring the other.