COMM 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fundamental Attribution Error
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However, just because people see things differently doesn"t mean it is wrong. Perception is an active process of creating meaning by selecting, organizing, and interpreting, in people, objects, events, and other situations. Selection: (we select to attend to certain stimuli based on a number of factors) Qualities of the phenomena: (calling phenomena to our attention) Self indication: (who we are and what is going on with us) Organization: (once we have selected what to notice, we must make sense of it. ) Cognitive schemata: (we rely on four cognitive schemata to make sense of interpersonal phenomena, prototypes, personal constructs, stereotypes, and scripts. ) Prototype- the clearest most representative example of some category. Personal construct- a mental yardstick we use to measure a person or situation along a bipolar dimension of judgment. Stereotype- a predictive generalization applied to a person or situation. Interpretation: (a subjective process of interpreting other"s actions and ascribing meaning to them)
