COMM 1000- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 12 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Perception: interpreting the sensory experience of the world: our perceptions don"t always mask the perceptions of others, sensory experience: what our brain making out of things. Perception is active: consistently thinking; noticing things; get hung up on it; lose focus of other things that are going; we generally focus the most salient things that are happening. Notice things that changing; vocal variety (pitch: organize. Sum it up: we attempt to simplify complex information, keep it as simple and clean as possible. Infinite possibilities of going perfect or horribly wrong. Bias: self-attribution tends to differ from other attribution. We act a certain way because of the situation . Others act a certain way because of who they are : attributions differ as people focus on different information. Sometimes we focus on the context or circumstances. Overuse of personality reasons (dispositions) with others. Joe failed the exam because he"s lazy and foolish: self-serving bias.
