Ch 4 Review

The ongoing process of making meaning from what we experience in our environment.

• Attribution

• Perception

• Selection

• Egocentrism

The influences on perceptual accuracy. (Select all that apply.)

• Selection

• Physiological States

• Culture and Co-Culture

• Social Roles

Cathy was promoted to team captain on her co-ed soccer team. She treats all players fairly but many of the male athletes do not like Cathy's leadership. The females on the team think Cathy is fair and reasonable, but the males resent her and challenge her leadership. The males probably treat Cathy this way because

• they are prejudiced due to Cathy's ethnicity.

• they are physiologically opposed to Cathy.

• they are culturally insensitive to Cathy.

• they perceive Cathy as masculine and socially threatening.

Define Attribution

The process of stereotype formation

• Identify group membership

• Recall group generalization

• Apply generalization

• Act on prejudice

True or False: Stereotypes are sometimes accurate.

Egocentrism is a noral stage of _____ ____________

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

• Sometimes True

• True

• Sometimes False

• False

Give an example of a self-serving bias.

Facts are... (select all the apply)

• what actually happened.

• observations.

• opinion.

• subjective.