Communication and Perception

_____________ refers to a person's general way of thinking, feeling, and behaving based on underlying motivations and impulses

personality

When perceiving others, we rely on various shortcuts to help us fill in the gaps and create an overall impression of someone. To do this, we rely on:

personality traits, assumed similarity, implicit personality theories

___________________ is a perceptual tendency to place more weight on the most recent impression we have of a person's communication over earlier impressions

recency effect

Making a bad impression on a first date or during a job interview could negatively influence later impressions. This is known as the

Horn effect

Darlene is very shy and does not speak very often. Which of the Big Five personality traits might apply to Darlene?

Low Extraversion

You have a new student coming to your class named Shannon. You automatically assume Shannon is a female, so you volunteer to be her lab partner. When Shannon arrives to class the next day, you are surprised when a male sits down at your table. What may have influenced your assumption of Shannon's gender?

Socialization

Raul is complaining to his roommate abut the rude classmate who wouldn't let him copy notes from the class he missed earlier in the week. In this case, Raul is relying on _________________

an internal attribution

You are surprised when your fried reports that she hated the movie you recommended. Which of the following likely played a role in your inaccurate perceptions

assumed similarity

The ______________ occurs when initial positive perceptions lead us to view later interactions as positive as well

halo effect

Barry thinks that Brandon is a selfish annoyance and does not like interacting with him. Barry blames Brandon's home life for his behavior and is sure to tell everyone his opinion about it. Barry is connecting the cause of Brandon's behavior to __________________

external attributes

Our identities and personalities do not affect our perceptions

false

Race does not affect the perceptions we make

false

The term salience refers to a database of store information that we use to interpret new experiences

false

Primacy effect and recency effect influence

impressions

Of the following, which do we not internalize as w are socialized into our cultural identities

self concepts

Debbie is new to the office, and her experience has not been positive so far. After work each day she talks with her partner about all the personality clashes that she is experiencing in her new work environment. Debbie may be committing

the fundamental attribution error

Extraversion and neuroticism are both part of the Big Five personality traits

true

Internal attributes focus on person aspects and external attributions focus on situational factors

true

Our cultural identities and our personalities affect our perceptions

true

Schemas are influenced by cultural identities

true

We are socialized to perceive greater differences between genders than actually exist

true