CYC 301 Chapter 3: Interpersonal Chapter 3 Text

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Child and Youth Care
• Course: CYC 301
• Professor: Calvin Langton

Document Summary

Perception: the process of experiencing your world then making sense of what you experience. Interpersonal perception: process of deciding what people are like, giving meaning to their actions. Focuses on why we select certain sounds/images/sensations and not others. Selective perception: making sense of the world based on personality, beliefs, attitudes, etc. Selective attention: focusing on speci c stimuli and ignoring others; usually attend to those that relate to our needs and wants (ex. focus on mcdonalds billboard because we"re hungry) Selective exposure: tendency to put ourselves into situations that reinforce our attitudes, beliefs, etc (ex. Catholic more likely to be in church, liberal more likely to be at liberal party convention) Selective recall: we remember things we want to remember and forget unpleasant things. Thin slicing: you sample some of a human"s behavior and then generalize about what they are like based on that small piece of information.