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PSYCH 439 Ch 5 Exam with Questions and Answers What are the basic building blocks of all social encounters? ANSWER Perception (how we make sense of our environment), cognition (how we process information), and emotion (internal affective states) Define perception ANSWER The process by which i...

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PSYCH 439 Ch 5 Exam with Questions and
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What are the basic building blocks of all social encounters? ANSWER Perception (how we
make sense of our environment), cognition (how we process information), and emotion
(internal affective states)



Define perception ANSWER The process by which individuals connect to their environment
by ascribing meaning to messages and events



What influences perception? ANSWER Current state of mind, role and comprehension of
earlier communications; other parties' perceptions, the environment, and the perceiver's own
dispositions



List the major perceptual errors ANSWER Stereotyping, halo effects, selective perception,
and projection



Define stereotyping ANSWER When one individual assigns attributes to another solely on
the basis of the other's membership in a particular social or demographic category



What sort of conditions would individuals likely resort to stereotyping? ANSWER Time
pressure, cognitive stress, mood, conflicts involving values/ideologies, direct competition for
resources among groups



Define halo effects ANSWER When people generalize about a variety of attributes based on
the knowledge of one attribute of an individual

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