Essay 5: Types of perceptual and attribution errors
Essay 5: Types of perceptual and attribution errors
Outline and give examples of the different types of perceptual and attribution errors and how they might occur (even without you being aware of it) in your own perceptions of other people from identity groups that are not your own.(75 words)
Apply the notion of identity politics to the treatment and social construction of a minority group in your culture. This could be a religious group, an ethnic or national group, a sexual group (e.g., women), a social class group (e.g., “White trash,” “rednecks,” in the U.S.). What are the different ways in which media constructions and face-to-face communication with dominant group members build an idea of what this identity is like in the majority group’s mind? What moves, if any, has the minority group made to reclaim a more positive sense of its own identity?(100)
List and give examples of five different classifications of nonverbal behaviors from a culture or co-culture to which you belong. Give examples both of behaviors that might illustrate each channel and of how behaviors might differ at different times even within that channel. (50)
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