COM 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Attribution Bias

• School: URI
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COM 100
• Professor: Mc Gregor Michael

Document Summary

Identity- who a person is, composed of individual and social categories a person identifies with, as well as the categories that others identity with a person. Stereotypes- creating schemes that overgeneralize attributes of a specific group. Prejudge- experiencing aversive negative feeling toward a group as a whole or toward an individual because he or she belongs to a group. Perception- the process of selection, organization, and interpretation of the information you collect through your senses: what you see, hear, touch, taste, smell, and touch. Selection- the process of choosing which sensory information to focus on. Organization- the process by which one recognizes what sensory input represents. Interpretation- the act of assigning meaning to sensory information. Selective attention- consciously or unconsciously attending to just a narrow range of the full array of sensory information. Cognitive representation- the ability to form mental models of the word.