Project 2 – Focus Questions
Chapters 2,3 & 12
Chapter 2, Perception and Communication
1. What is perception? What are the three processes of perception and
how are they used?
2. What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
Be prepared to give an example, apply it to your life.
3. How is culture defined? How do the cultures to which we belong help to
shape our perception?
4. A schemata is a cognitive structure. What are the four kinds of schemata
that help to explain perceptions?
Chapter 2
Culture
Empathy
Meaning
Mind reading
Perception
Personal constructs
Prototype
Schemata
Scripts
Self-fulfilling
prophecy
Self-serving bias
Standpoint theory
Stereotypes
Chapter 3 – Communication and Personal Identity
1. What is the self in relation to communication? How does self-fulfilling
prophecy have an effect on the self?
2. Be able to talk about direct definition, where it comes from, how it affects
who we become.
3. What are identity scripts? How do they differ from direct definition?
Think about your identity scripts. Are there some you have chosen to let go
of and others you have chosen to continue? If you could rewrite an
identity script, how would you do so?
4. How have attachment styles – secure, fearful, dismissive, or
anxious/ambivalent – affected your life or the lives of your friends?
5. What positive and negative effects on your self-concept could
have come from social comparison?
Chapter 12
1.
How does mass media tell us about who we/you are?
2. What is the difference between mass communication and mass media?
3. How do you experience agenda setting by the media? How do you feel
the effects of the media’s gatekeeper?
Chapter 3
Direct definition
Identity scripts
Particular others
Perspective of the
Generalized other
Self
Self-sabotage
Social comparison
Chapter 12
Gatekeeper
Mainstreaming
Mass communication
Mass media
Media literacy