Communications 174 ch:3

After performing a comprehensive job search, job seekers put together a resume, write a cover letter, and then go on job interviews. This situation best exemplifies:

scripts.

Deciding what to pay attention to is part of the__ process.

selection

If a coworker tells you that your new boss is patient and hardworking, you will be more likely to overlook those qualities in your new boss.

False

Most adults have the same level of cognitive complexity.

False

The self-serving bias is found in all cultures around the world.

False

Thinking, "My roommate is generous with everyone right after she gets paid" is an example of an unstable and specific attribution.

False

All of the following are guidelines for improving perception and communication EXCEPT:

Focus on inferences rather than facts

. Scripts are so useful in guiding us through many of our interactions that it is okay to accept them uncritically.

True

A personal construct is a "mental yardstick" we use to measure a person or situation along a bipolar dimension of judgment.

True

In Korea, people are more likely than Westerners to perceive the ages of people with whom they communicate because age is an important aspect of identity in Korean culture.

True

In order to avoid the fundamental attribution error, it is best to look for possible external causes for another person's failures and possible internal causes for your own failures.

True

Prototypes, personal constructs, stereotypes, and scripts are cognitive schemata that we use to organize our perceptions of people and phenomena.

True

Evaluating a person as kind or unkind, intelligent or unintelligent, etc., involves using:

personal constructs.

According to the process of human perception, the selection process includes all of the following EXCEPT:

rational judgment.

A point of view shaped by political awareness of the social location of a group is known as a(n):

standpoint

Charles says, "I would never join a fraternity. All fraternities do is party." Charles' statement is an example of a(n):

stereotype.

The tendency to overestimate the internal causes and underestimate the external causes of others' undesirable behaviors is part of:

the fundamental attribution error.

Which of the following is a prototype?

the person who exemplifies a friend to you

Recent research shows that we can override the draw of noisy or novel stimuli.

true

Which of the following is a script?

your idea about how you should interact with a friend