Exam 3: Interpersonal Communication and Perception

When your parents look at you carefully and wait for you to tell them what time you got home the previous night,which type of perception is in operation?

The interpersonal perception process involves

We use the barrier of ________ because we tend to find complex explanations less believable and harder to use in making sense of another's actions.

Your interpersonal communication instructor typically greets the class with a cheery "Good morning." When your instructor omits the greeting and instead launches directly into the day's lecture,you conclude the instructor must have thought he already greeted the class.You are attributing according to which of the barriers to accurate perception?

Give an example that demonstrates the difference between passive and active perception.

You don't remember much of the lecture except for the instructor's last words: "All of today's material will be covered on the exam." This exemplifies

Active perception occurs because

Superimposing is the process of

The process of filling in the gaps is referred to as

How can you improve your perceptual skills?

You have just met your math instructor for the first time.Explain how the primacy and recency effects may affect your perception of her.

Which perception theory identifies circumstance,a stimulus,or the person herself or himself as the potential cause for a person's actions?

After we have selected and organized stimuli,the last part of the perception process is to

Attending to the first pieces of information that we observe about a person exemplifies

Discuss the three methods in which we organize the information we take in.Support your answer with examples from your own life.

A(n)________ is a bipolar quality that we use to classify people.

To improve your ability to socially decentre and to empathize,you must strive for which two goals?

Your friend walks past you without speaking to you.You conclude that because your friend is taking an overload of classes this semester,she is preoccupied and did not see you.This illustrates

You recall the joke that the speaker told at the beginning of her speech,but you remember little else.This is an example of

Information that we acquire simply because our senses are operating comes to us through