Unit 3 Vocabulary Quiz

This is the process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to

spoken and/or nonverbal messages.

• Receiver

• Hearing

• Processing

• Listening

This is known as the process of being critical about message

content.

• Evaluation

• Processing

• Bias

• Attribution

This is the process of selectively focusing on certain events in the environment.

• Bias

• Attention

• Focus

• Selection

When we assign motives to other

people, when we answer “Why? questions” we are making attributions, and how we

make these attributions will affect whether communication succeeds or fails. They are referred to as:

• Attributions

• Biases

• Interpretation

• Evaluation

These are the specific characteristics

we notice about other people. If, for example, you were to describe your best friend,

the adjectives you use would be examples of these:

• Bias

• Stereotype

• Attributions

• Personal Construct

What is a process of

translating what a speaker says and does into ideas and intentions called?

• Evaluation

• Bias

• Attention

• Interpretation

When we meet new people, we react automatically, relying on pre-existing mental

structures that allow us to label and categorize people and events. These structures

are called:

• Images

• Schemas

• Stereotypes

• Predisposition

When schemas allow us to make predictions about

people based on the categories they fall into are called:

• Stereotypes

• Bias Blind Spots

• Attributions

• Schema

This is a physiological process that occurs when sound waves are and desires. translated into electrical impulses and then processed by the central nervous system.

• Evaluation

• Listening

• Hearing

• Processing

When we are not able to recognize our own tendency to see things with prejudice, or judge people in a certain way, we are said to have:

• Bias Blind Spots

• Prejudice

• Attributions

• Personal Construct