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Interpersonal Communication
social cognition
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Undergraduate 1
03/24/2009

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schema
Definition
a cognitive structure that helps us process and organize information.
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Personal Constructs
Definition

allows us to describe things in grater detail and make judgements about them

 

"what are it's characteristics?"

"What do I think about it?"  

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Stereotype
Definition
a cluster of expectations or beliefs about probable behavior of members of a particular social group
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Naive Realism
Definition
capture a relatively small number of crucial visual or auditory clues and fill in the rest of the information from preexisting cognitive categories to form a perception
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4 perceptual processes
Definition

1. what the situation is

2. who the other person is

3. who you are and what kind of relationship between other and self is implied

4. why patterens unfold the way they do 

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attribution theories
Definition
theories concerned with how we infer the causes of social behavior
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Attribution Bias #1: The Anchoring Effect
Definition
the fact that a person's final judgement about the cause of another's behavior is almost always biased in the direction of his of her initial point of view
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Attribution Bias #2: Overestimating Personality
Definition
assuming that people intend all behavior
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Attribution Bias #3: Underestimating the situation
Definition
make assumptions based on the person and leave out the situation
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Attribution Bias #4: Perspective Matters
Definition
Look at something from another perspective
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self fulfilling prophecy
Definition
prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to come true
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