HS102 Chapter 4 Vocabulary

The tendency to form an overall positive impression of a person on the basis of one positive characteristic.

• 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.

Is the ability to re-create another person's perspective, to experience the world from the other's point of view.

You view the other person's situation from your point of view.  With empathy, you view it from the other person's perspective.

Combining masculine and feminine traits

To describe the process of explaining people's behavior.

The attitude that one's own culture is superior to others.

Socially approved ways that men and women are expected to behave.

Attaching meaning to sense data

Stories we use to describe our personal world.

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.

Selecting information and arrange it in a meaningful way.

The determination of causes and effects in a series of interactions.

Exaggerated generalizations associated with a categorizing system.

Impressions we will attend to.

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.