The tendency to form an overall positive impression of a person on the basis of one positive characteristic.
Elements of Perception Checking.
1. A description of the behavior your noticed
2. At least two possible interpretations of the behavior
3. A request for clarification about how to interpret the behavior.
Empathy
Is the ability to re-create another person's perspective, to experience the world from the other's point of view.
Sympathy
You view the other person's situation from your point of view. With empathy, you view it from the other person's perspective.
Androgynous
Combining masculine and feminine traits
Attribution
To describe the process of explaining people's behavior.
Ethnocentrism
The attitude that one's own culture is superior to others.
Gender Role
Socially approved ways that men and women are expected to behave.
Interpretation
Attaching meaning to sense data
Narratives
Stories we use to describe our personal world.
Negotiation
A big part of sense-making occurs between and among people as they influence one another's perceptions and try to achieve a shared perspective.
Organization
Selecting information and arrange it in a meaningful way.
Punctation
The determination of causes and effects in a series of interactions.
Stereotyping
Exaggerated generalizations associated with a categorizing system.
Selection
Impressions we will attend to.
Self-Serving Bias
In an attempt to convince ourselves and others that the positive face we show to the world is true, we tend to judge ourselves in the most generous terms possible.