Exam 3: Perception

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

How do we assign meaning to others' behavior?

Instant decisions are also known as snap judgments.

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

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

Perception is a consequence of which of the following?

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

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

We usually reproduce what we store in our memory.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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