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Chapter 2
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
10/28/2013

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Symbolic Self-Awareness
Definition
A unique human ability to develop and coomunicate representation of oneself to others through language
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Attention
Definition
The act of perceiving stimuli in your enviroment
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Selection
Definition
The act of choosing specific stimuli in your enviroment to focus on
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Organization
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Converting information into convenient, understandable, and effcient patterns that allow us to make sense of what we have observed
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Closure
Definition
The perceptual process of filling in missing information
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Interpretation
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Attaching meaning to what is attended to, selected, and organized
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Indirect perception checking
Definition
Using your own perceptual abilities to seek additional information to confirm or refute your interpretations of someone's behavior
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Direct perception checking
Definition
Asking someone else whether your interpretations of what you perceive are correct
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reframing
Definition
The process of redifining events and experiences from a different point of view
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