Comm Ch. 4

In which of the following instances might you have committed the self serving bias?

We have a tendency to discount first impressions as untrustworthy

A number of factors affect the likelihood that we will notice a certain object in our environment which of the following was not mentioned in you textbookk as something that can increase attention?

The self serving bias is a form of self delusion

People see faces in all sorts of natural phenomena including clouds tree bark and even rocks on Mars. This is an example of which persecution making process?

When competent communicators discover that their perceptions were inaccurate, they will respond by:

Overattribution is essentially the same thing as the primacy effect

According to your textbook, which of the following items does not factor into perceptual accuracy?

Your senses are unable to attend to every stimulus in the environment at the same time

Which of the following processes is at work when we are only able to recalll information that confirms our existing stereotypes?

This is the ongoing process of making meaning from the things we experience in our environment

Forming an accurate snap-judgement of someone else illustrates the following truisms of forming attributions

Physiology exerts several effects on interpersonal perception

The stages of perception happen in a very ordered and linear fashion

Which of the following sequences accurately depicts the process of stereotype formation?

Regarding the fundamental attribution error, which of the following statements is not true?

During your first session of this class, your instructor introduced him or herself and you respected his or her position as an authoritative figure in the classroom. Which of the following classification schemes likely helped ou organize this information?

If an attribution is internal then it must also be controllable

Perceptual ability is influenced by social and occupational roles.

According to your text, the perception-making process consist of three stages. Which of the following is not among them?

One of your hallmates, Ling, is an exchange student from Taiwan. Ling never goes out with the other students, goes to bed at 9:30 every night, and studies quietly in her room most of the time. You assume that Ling behaves the way she does simply because she is Asian. Which of the following attribution errors did you commit?

Egocentrism is a normal stage of human development

Organization is the process of assigning meaning to something you have perceived

A fellow student in one of your communication classes, Rose, starts acting particularly nice to you in the last couple weeks leading up to the first exam. Classmates have frequently treated you this way in the past in the hopes that you will help them study for upcoming exams. As a result, you are suspicious of Rose's motives. In this scenario, you are likely basing your suspicions on:

Angela had just been promoted to department chair at the college where she taught. Although she treated everyone the same, several of the male professors in the department were put off by Angela's requests. As a result, the female professors thought of Angela as fair and equitable in her treatment, but the male professors began resenting her and openly challenging her position on several issues. The male professors probably treated Angela this way because they perceived Angela's professional position as masculine and socially

Which of the following statements is true with respect to the processs of stereotyping?

Which of the following items was not suggested in your textbook as one of the ways to combat perceptual inaccuracies?

Which of the following statements is true with respect to perceptual accuracy?

An explanation for why something occurred is called

When it comes to perception making, it's always best to have the most information possible.