Deck 3: Perception

Question 1

___________ perceivers rely on stereotyping as their key perceptual process.

A) Motivated
B) Lazy
C) Intelligent
D) Adept
E) Organized

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Stereotyping and racial ______________ have the potential to _________ interracial and intercultural communication.

A) Bias; increase
B) Profiling; plague/harm
C) Profiling; supplement
D) Bias; enhance

Answer 2

B

Question 3

This helps us to create a limited, but more coherent, and personally meaningful picture of the world; that picture conforms to our beliefs, expectations, and convictions.

A) Selective exposure
B) Selective perception
C) Selective attention
D) Selective retention

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The mental templates of characteristics that influence our notions or ideas about other people are called ____________________________.

A) Schemata
B) Overattribution
C) Perceptual sets
D) Frameworks

Question 5

According to this model, we have different identities that make themselves visible in different situations.

A) DICE
B) EGBD
C) PPAS
D) IDEA
E) SIDE

Question 6

If you believe that those in positions of power have overriding interests in preserving their place in the social hierarchy, you subscribe to which theory?

A) Perception Checking
B) Uncertainty Reduction
C) Standpoint
D) Selective Exposure

Question 7

The more similar our ________ _______, the more similarly we tend to perceive things.

A) Perceptual sets
B) Thoughts and actions
C) Life experiences
D) Schemata
E) Ideas

Question 8

When we direct our attention to some stimuli while choosing to ignore others, we demonstrate????????????????________ _________.

A) Selective exposure
B) Selective perception
C) Selective attention
D) Selective retention

Question 9

Perception is a consequence of which of the following?

A) Who we are
B) What we choose to see
C) Where we are
D) All of the above

Question 10

The tendency to provide reasons for our own behavior is known as ___________.

A) Schemata
B) Overattribution
C) Fundamental attribution error
D) Self-serving bias

Question 11

Which is NOT correct: stereotypes in media influence our expectations and relationships in all ways except:

A) They identify appropriate behavior
B) They provide us with perceptual shortcuts
C) They cause us to forget that we interact with people-not stereotypes
D) They provide us perceptual feedback

Question 12

Every time we fill in a missing perceptual piece we exhibit what organizational strategy?

A) Perceptual constancy
B) Figure ground principle
C) Closure
D) Scripting

Question 13

Perceptual constancy utilizes two different concepts; which are they?

A) Schemata and schema
B) Schemata and scripts
C) Affectors and detractors
D) Scripts and affectors

Question 14

Basing our impressions solely on an abbreviated behavioral pattern is known as ____________________________.

A) Trusting
B) Thin slicing
C) Impression Theory
D) Perception

Question 15

This theory helps us to explain why others behave as they do.

A) Perceptual
B) Attribution
C) Interpersonal Communication
D) Gender Perception

Question 16

________________ is a composite of what we read, piece together, experience, and/or want to be true.

A) Memory
B) Affectors
C) Scripts
D) Schemata

Question 17

Our preference for people and messages that confirm our existing beliefs, attitudes, or values is known as ________________.

A) Selective exposure
B) Selective perception
C) Selective attention
D) Selective retention

Question 18

We tend to recall information that is consistent with our ____________ and discount or forget that which is not.

A) Minds
B) Opinions
C) Schema
D) Attention span

Question 19

When we rely on physical appearance to make judgments regarding both the categories people belong to and the traits they possess, we are making ___________________ associations.

A) Feature-trait
B) Clothing-trait
C) Facial-trait
D) Stereotypical

Question 20

Beliefs about _______________-appropriate behavior influence how we relate to one another.

A) Media
B) Gender
C) Group
D) Perceptual

Question 21

Rigid perceptions that are applied to all members of a group, regardless of individual variation, are called ethnocentricities.

Question 22

Instant decisions are also known as snap judgments.

Question 23

We all perceive reality similarly.

Question 24

We usually reproduce what we store in our memory.

Question 25

This theory allows us to monitor our environment and learn more about one another.

Question 26

We have a tendency to shift responsibility for communication problems and perceptual distortions away from ourselves and onto other people with whom we hold relationships.

Question 27

When we look for a consensus, we consider differences in behavior.

Question 28

The Internet is affecting how well we remember situations and facts.

Question 29

Others' expectations and role model behavior reinforce "acceptable" images of female behavior.

Question 30

Like education and culture, our motivation causes us to exhibit our own perceptual preferences.

Question 31

Name the four constructs that make up our schemata.

Question 32

Gender, not culture, influences the way we make sense of our experiences.

Question 33

The gender constructs that we create tend to limit how we are perceived and may lead to inaccurate judgments of others.

Question 34

Name one difference in how men and women perceive appropriate behavior.

Question 35

Playing online video games tends to subdue our behavior by causing people to perceive provocation as hostile.

Question 36

When we organize the stimuli we perceive uniquely, we are creating perceptual sets.

Question 37

Fifteen percent of Blacks believe we need to enact new civil right laws to reduce discrimination.

Question 38

The tendency to perceive what is right or wrong, good or bad, according to the categories and values in our own culture, is known as ethnocentrism.

Question 39

According to group-based processing, if we are younger and identify an individual as belonging to the category of older adults, then our attitudes toward that person may be affected by the attitudes we have toward older persons in general.

Question 40

When we assume people stay the way we are, we make frozen evaluations.

Question 41

A __________ is something we know is true on the basis of observation; a(n) ____________ is a conclusion we draw whether it is supported by facts.

Question 42

When we fail to discriminate among individuals, we may discriminate against individuals; this is often referred to as ___________________________.

Question 43

How might "inaccuracies" creep into our memory?

Question 44

Explain the "figure-ground principle" and explain how it may be similar to "perceptual constancy."

Question 45

Heavy television viewers are more likely to be fearful and to exaggerate the amount of violence in the world than are light viewers. This is an explanation of what theory?

Question 46

Thinking we know all there is to know about a person, place, or situation is known as ________________.

Question 47

When we mistake what we infer for what we observe, we experience _______________________________________.

Question 48

How do we assign meaning to others' behavior?

Question 49

Please explain the difference between the "horn" and "halo" effects.

Question 50

Which group of people has the highest anxiety level about aging (young people, middle-aged people, or older people)?

Question 51

_______________ is the act of forcing ourselves to see people and situations only in certain ways.

Question 52

To avoid treating interpretations as facts, what skill should we develop?

Question 53

Using stereotypes as the basis for social exchange often leads to __________________.

Question 54

Explain one idea or lesson that we learn about perception as a result of media influence.

Question 55

What differences might you find between a "patient perceiver" and an "impatient" one?

Question 56

What cultural group believes it is important to express their uniqueness and independence?