Choices and Connections

Convictions that an individual holds to be true are

Henry just found out that his best friend, Jay, is getting divorced. Having recently been through a divorce himself, Henry can understand how Jay is feeling and offers to listen if Jay wants to talk. Henry is demonstrating

Which of these is a method of communicating more competently that involves perspective-taking and feeling concern for how other people are feeling?

Your self-concept is based upon the sets of beliefs, attitudes, and values your significant others have about you.

Which of the following is a strategy you can use to maintain face?

A culture that values the group or society over individual goals is

The tendency to act in ways that ensure interactions occur as you believed and predicted they would is called (a)

Which of these is a type of self-awareness that focuses on evaluating and improving your communication?

The tendency to negatively interpret the behavior of people for whom you've formed negative Gestalts is referred to as the

Which of these is a mental construct that expresses enduring principles of what is good or bad and right or wrong?

A culture that values personal objectives over group or societal goals

Which is the term for analyzing the positive and negative things you learn about someone to calculate an overall impression, then updating this impression as you learn new information?

The halo effect occurs when you make positive attributions about someone for whom you have already formed a positive Gestalt.

If a public figure is not "out of the closet" to her fans, she is using which strategy to maintain her public self?

The word empathy comes from the Greek word meaning

Your "face" is an aspect of the self that only you can see.

The tendency to assign external causes for your own individual behavior is called the

The fundamental attribution error results from attributing others' behaviors to external rather than internal causes.

When you pay attention to specific stimuli or information in your environment while simultaneously ignoring other stimuli, you are engaging in the selection step of perception.

Which of the following perceptual errors results from the tendency to make external attributions for your own behaviors?