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Androgynous
Possessing both masculine and feminine traits
TERM 2
Attribution
DEFINITION 2
The process of attaching meaning to another person's
behavior
TERM 3
Confirmation Bias
DEFINITION 3
The tendency to seek out and organize data that supports
already existing opinions
TERM 4
Empathy
DEFINITION 4
The ability to project oneself into another person's point of
view in an attempt to experience another person's thoughts
and feelings
TERM 5
First-Order Realities
DEFINITION 5
The physically observable qualities of a thing or situation
Fundamental Attribution Error
The tendency to give more weight to personal qualities, than
to the situation when making attributes
TERM 7
Gender
DEFINITION 7
Psychological Sex Type
TERM 8
Halo Effect
DEFINITION 8
The tendency to form an overall positive impression of a
person, on the bias of one positive characteristic
TERM 9
Horns Effect
DEFINITION 9
The tendency to form an overall negative impression of a
person, on the bias of one negative characteristic
TERM 10
Interpretation
DEFINITION 10
The process of attaching meaning to sense data
Punctuation
The process of determining the casual order of events
TERM 17
Second-Order Realities
DEFINITION 17
Perceptions that arise from attaching meaning to first-order
things or situations
TERM 18
Selection
DEFINITION 18
A phase of the perception process in which a communicator
attends to a stimulus from the environment. Also, a way
communicators manage dialectical tensions by responding to
one end of the dialectical spectrum and ignoring another.
TERM 19
Self-Serving Bias
DEFINITION 19
The tendency to judge oneself in the most generous terms,
while being more critical of others
TERM 20
Standpoint Theory
DEFINITION 20
A body of scholarship that explores how one's position in a
society shapes one's view of society in general, and of
specific individuals.
Stereotyping
Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system
