INTP COMM W3 S1 Perception & Cultural Filters

What does Attribution Theory aim to explain?

• How people manage impressions in digital spaces

• How we infer causes for others’ behaviors

• Why media influences social roles

A key concept in Attribution Theory is:

• Internal vs. external causes

• Emotional contagion

• Cross-cultural misunderstanding

Selective perception refers to:

• Focusing only on information aligned with our beliefs

• Gathering data from all sources equally

• Evaluating all sides of a debate

One risk of selective perception is:

• Reinforcing stereotypes or misjudgments

• Reduced memory capacity

• Over-communication

Edward T. Hall’s Cultural Frame Theory suggests:

• Culture is irrelevant to perception

• Culture shapes how people interpret and react to the world

• All people perceive stimuli identically

What does “high-context” mean in Hall’s framework?

• Cultures that use explicit verbal messages

• Cultures where much meaning is embedded in context, not words

• Cultures that rely only on written agreements

Which scenario best illustrates cultural filters?

• A joke that’s funny in one country but offensive in another

• A technical error in communication

• Reading a newspaper daily

The TED-Ed video “Culture and Perception” argues that:

• Culture is separate from the senses

• Cultural training impacts what we notice and how we categorize

• Perception is biologically fixed

A “perceptual schema” refers to:

• Scientific data on optical illusions

• Mental frameworks we use to organize and interpret information

• Language rules in grammar

According to Hall, perception differences arise from:

• Personal ambition

• Economic class only

• Deeply rooted cultural habits and values