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What is Egocentric?
This process seeks to find a reason for behavior by observing to determine motives.
What is attribution?
When you only see what you want to see or expect about a situation, you're using this problematic approach to interpersonal communication.
What is a perceptual set?
What is listening?
This is a bias that might sing "I did it my way" without any irony whatsoever.
When you look at your environment and try to make it mean something you're implementing this.
What is perception?
You really want someone to like you, so you focus only on their good characteristics and overlook their unpleasant ones.
What is postivity bias?
When your friend is telling you a story and you say things such as "uh-huh," make eye contact, and nod your head, you're using these tools.
What are nonverbal listening cues?
The person who lacks this trait struggles to understand how the other person in an interpersonal relationship might feel.
What is empathy?
When you decide that the majority of your friend's behavior derives from their neurodiversity and chalk up anything you don't like about what they do to that.
What is overattribution?
Our tendancy to remember the first impression we have about someone, even if their actions may indicate the perception is flawed.
What is primacy effect?
When you think you already know what your mom is going to say before she says it, so you get angry at her even though she hasn't said anything yet.
What is jumping to conclusions about a speaker?
What is the fundamental attribution error?
When you decide that your friend didn't smile at you when you smiled at them must be because they are angry at you and no other explanation is possible.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
What is direct eye contact?
When someone gives you positive and negative feedback, and you get your feelings hurt because you only remember the negative, you are doing this.
This well-know mythological character, sometimes called the "god of vanity," died when he fell in love with his own reflection in a pool.`
Who is Narcissus?
When you decide what to notice about something and what to ignore, you're enacting this step in perceiving.
What is attention?
What is stereotyping?
The process of categorizing information to which you've selected to attend called this.
What is organization?