Unit 3 Vocabulary Quiz, English

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When meeting new people, we use mental structures to label and categorize them. These structures are called:

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Schemas

Front

Characteristics we notice about others, like adjectives for a best friend.

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Personal Construct

Front

Assigning motives to others and answering 'Why?' involves making attributions, which impact communication success or failure. These are called:

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Attributions

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Process of selectively focusing on certain events in the environment.

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Attention

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Process of receiving, making meaning from, and responding to spoken/nonverbal messages.

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Listening

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Process of being critical about message content

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Evaluation

Front

Physiological process of translating sound waves into electrical impulses processed by the central nervous system.

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Hearing

Front

Inability to recognize our own prejudices:

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Bias Blind Spots

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Process of translating a speaker's words and actions into ideas and intentions.

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Interpretation

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Schemas predicting people based on categories are called:

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Stereotypes