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  1. 2. attributions Attributions that locate the cause of behavior outside of a person, such as other people, nature, or acts of God; those are also known as situational dispositions.
  2. 4. dispositions Refer to external attributions.
  3. 6. illusions Perceptions that involve an apparent discrepancy between how an object looks and what it actually is.
  4. 8. The process of gathering information about the world through our senses; our initial interpretations of sensations.
  5. 9. three dimensions in two A theory of perception that suggests that people in Western cultures focus more on representations on paper than do people in other cultures, and in particular spend more time learning to interpret pictures.
  6. 11. world theory A theory of perception that suggests that people (at least most Americans) are used to seeing things that are rectangular in shape, and thus unconsciously accept things to have square corners.
  7. 13. Inferences people make about the causes of events or behaviors, their own as well as others’.
  8. 14. A method used to determine if one stimulus affects another.
  9. 15. The focusing of our limited capacities of consciousness on a particular set of stimuli, more of whose features are noted and processed in more depth than is true of nonfocal stimuli.
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  1. 1. The feelings that result from excitation of the sensory receptors such as touch, taste, smell, sight, or hearing.
  2. 3. The process by which objects are grouped or classified together based on their perceived similarities.
  3. 5. foreshortening theory A theory of perception that suggests that we interpret vertical lines as horizontal lines extending into the distance. Because we interpret the vertical line in the horizontal-vertical illusion as extending away from us, we see it as longer.
  4. 7. bias Refer to fundamental attribution error.
  5. 10. attributions Attributions that specify the cause of behavior within a person; also known as dispositional attributions, because they are attributions about people’s dispositions.
  6. 11. A term denoting all menprocesses we use to transform sensory input into knowledge.
  7. 12. attributions Refer to internal attributions.