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This is the "process of assigning meaning to sensory information and experiences." |
| | A) | perception |
| | B) | understanding |
| | C) | communication |
| | D) | none of the above |
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There are many factors that influence perception. Which of the items below is NOT one of the chief three mentioned in your textbook? |
| | A) | physical factors |
| | B) | feedback |
| | C) | personality |
| | D) | culture |
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When your authors say, "Studies of high school students show that morning classes are usually the least effective for them because the low point for alertness for adolescents is between six and eight o'clock in the morning," they are discussing the physiological dynamic called __________. |
| | A) | awareness |
| | B) | acuity |
| | C) | a biorhythm |
| | D) | none of the above |
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There are three basic steps in the perceptual process. Which three below are correct? |
| | A) | Interpretation, Selection, and Valuation |
| | B) | Interpretation, Analysis, and Valuation |
| | C) | Interpretation, Selection, and Analysis |
| | D) | Interpretation, Selection, and Organization |
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This word means that we focus on some sensory stimuli rather than others: __________. |
| | A) | selection |
| | B) | salience |
| | C) | perception |
| | D) | analysis |
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When we say that something has "personal relevance or interest," we are referring to the concept called |
| | A) | meaning. |
| | B) | salience. |
| | C) | valuation. |
| | D) | affectation. |
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When we say that "we like things that are recognizable or similar to us," we are describing which one of the following aspects in the "selection of stimuli" process? |
| | A) | novelty |
| | B) | repetition |
| | C) | familiarity |
| | D) | intensity |
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"We see different things when we choose to focus on a single feature in a painting, print, or message rather than the image or meaning as a whole," write our textbook authors. The part that you focus on is called the |
| | A) | ground. |
| | B) | abstraction. |
| | C) | figure. |
| | D) | locus. |
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This is the theory that we learn new behaviors, customs, and routines by watching others. |
| | A) | social mirroring |
| | B) | social adaptation |
| | C) | social cueing |
| | D) | social learning |
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This is known as the "tendency to maintain the same perception of people and events over time." |
| | A) | perceptual constancy |
| | B) | perceptual longevity |
| | C) | perceptual acuity |
| | D) | perceptual endurance |
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This is the communication theory that claims: "People interpret and act on experience based on a mental system of organizing knowledge." |
| | A) | reductionism |
| | B) | constructivism |
| | C) | postmodernity |
| | D) | modernity |
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These are "guides to actions and expectations based on the categorization of perception." |
| | A) | roles |
| | B) | schemas |
| | C) | scripts |
| | D) | constructs |
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This is known as a strategy for thinking creatively and managing different perspectives. |
| | A) | brainstorming |
| | B) | cognitive shifting |
| | C) | perception shift |
| | D) | perception contextualization |
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This is the stage of perception in which we "determine the meaning of an event or interaction." |
| | A) | assimilation |
| | B) | matriculation |
| | C) | mediation |
| | D) | interpretation |
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What is "the assignment of meaning to the actions of ourselves and to others" called? |
| | A) | attribution |
| | B) | interpretation |
| | C) | codification |
| | D) | none of the above |
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This is known as the "overestimation of the degree to which other people's behaviors are due to internal factors and underestimation the significance of external forces." |
| | A) | hasty generalization error |
| | B) | fundamental attribution error |
| | C) | the alpha level, or alpha error |
| | D) | none of the above |
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