The process of receiving information about and making sense of the world around us
What is perception
100
Provided to us often by media and cultural prototypes, this perceptual bias involves assigning a groups perceived attributes to individuals known or believed to be a member of that specific group.
What is stereotyping
100
The emerging concept of leadership that focuses on self awareness as the first step to effectively lead others
What is authentic leadership
100
An ability to perceive, know about, and process information across cultures
What is global mindset
200
Complexity, Consistency and Clarity
What are the three characteristics that describe an individuals self-concept
200
Mental Models
What are the structures we develop to describe, explain and predict the world around us
200
Unintended (systemic) discrimination
What is relying on stereotypes to establish notions of the idea person for a specific role
200
A tool that helps us broaden our self awareness through personal disclosure and feedback from others
What is the Johari Window
200
Immersion
What is an organizational initiative that accelerates global mindset development through exposing people to other cultures
300
A persons inherent motivation to have a positive self concept and to have others perceive him or her favorably
What is self-enhancement
300
Paying attention to some information received by our senses but ignoring other information
What is selective attention
300
Holding unfounded negative attitudes towards people who belong to a particular stereotyped group
Also called external self-concept. People define themselves by the groups to which they belong or have a strong emotional attachment.
What is social identity theory
400
The nonconscious tendency for people to screen out information that is contrary to their decisions, beliefs, values and assumptions and confirming information that is more readily accepted through the perceptual process
What is confirmation bias
400
Perceiving whether an observed behavior in others is caused mainly by internal or external factors
What is attribution theory
400
Contact hypothesis
What is the theory that states that the more we interact with someone the less prejudice or perceptually biased we will be against that person
500
Locus of control
What is a persons beliefs about how much control he or she has over personal life events
500
An unconscious process of organizing people and objects into preconceived categories that are stored in our long term memory
What is Categorical thinking
500
Supervisor forming expectations about an employee, often at the beginning of a relationship
What is step 1 in the self fulfilling prophecy cycle
500
Being sensitive to the thoughts feelings and situations of others