Chapter 3 Flashcards
What is awareness?
Ability to be conscious of events and stimuli.
Determines what you pay attention to and how you carry out your intentions
What is self?
Sense of individuality, motivations, and personal characteristics.
What is an attitude?
Immediate disposition towards a concept or object
What is a belief?
Ideas based on previous experiences
What is a value?
Concepts and ideas of what we consider good, bad, right, or wrong
What is Self-Image?
How you see yourself and would describe yourself to others.
What is Self-Esteem?
How you feel about yourself (self worth), acceptance, and respect
What is Self-Concept?
Central Identity and set of beliefs of what you can accomplish
What is a Self-fulfilling prophecy?
Someone’s behavior comes to match and mirror others’ expectations
What is a preunderstanding?
Set of expectations and assumptions from previous experience
What is selection?
Sorting competing messages or choosing stimuli to pay attention
What is a stage?
Setting, scene and context of communication interaction
What is internal stimuli?
Those that come from within yourself.
What is external stimuli?
Stimulation from outside
What is Selective Exposure?
Information we choose to pay attention to and ignore
What is Selective Attention?
Focusing on one stimulus and tuning everything else out
What is selective retention?
Choosing to remember one stimulus over another one.
What is organization?
Sorting information into logical series/categories
What is proximity?
Organize based on physical relationship to objects
What is continuity?
Keeping things organized and draw lines between them
What is similarity?
Organizing items based on common things between them
What is closure?
Using previous knowledge to fill in gaps.
What are individual differences?
Differences that make people perceive things differently
What are demographic traits?
Characteristics that make someone who they are and common with others.
