It's all part of the process
the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information.
What is perception?
The process of strategically concealing or revealing personal information in order to influence others’ perceptions.
What is self-presentation?
When we do this while perceiving others, we are connecting the cause of behaviors to situational factors.
What is external attribution?
These are sets of beliefs that we develop about groups, which we then apply to individuals from that group.
What are stereotypes?
These are databases of stored, related information that we use to interpret new experiences.
What is schemeta?
The parts of this theory breaks down the actual self, ideal self, and ought self.
What is self discrepancy theory?
Agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, openness, and emotional stability.
What are the big five personality types?
This is a strategy to help us monitor our reactions to and perceptions about people and communication.
What is perception checking?
These three steps make up the perception process.
What is selection, organization, and interpretation?
These four groups are major influences on how we see ourselves.
What are social, family, media, and culture?
These two effects, not to be confused with something from the Bible, lead us to judge if an interaction will be positive or negative in the future.
What are the halo and horn effect?
Developing this skill helps you become a better listener and, in turn, a better communicator.
What are empathetic listening skills?
This is the degree to which something attracts our attention in a particular context.
What is salience?
Judgments about our self-efficacy influence these two things.
What is self esteem and self concept?
"Last time I saw her, she were really talkative. She's such a bubbly and friendly person."
I must be under this effect if I'm thinking this way.
What is the recency effect?
The thought and action patterns in which a person’s false belief triggers a behavior that makes the initial false belief actually or seemingly come true.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
When selecting information that we will organize and interpret, one of these five things will considered.
What are visual stimulation, aural stimulation, needs, interests, and expectations?
This happens when we see ourselves reflected in other people’s reactions to us and then form our self-concept based on how we believe other people see us.
What is the looking glass self?
This theory states that we generalize a person’s overall personality from the traits we can perceive.
What is implicit personality theory?
Describe the behavior or situation without evaluating or judging it.
Think of 2 possible interpretations of the behavior, being aware of attributions and other influences on the perception process.
Verify what happened and ask for clarification from the other person’s perspective.
What are the steps in the perception-checking process?