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Question #1
According to Chaffee, the activity of using your senses to experience and make sense of your world is known as...
A.   Perceiving
B.   Inferring
C.   Judging
D.   Believing
Question #2
Chaffee breaks down perceiving into three smaller actions. Which is the following is NOT an action associated with perceiving?
A.   Participating
B.   Interpreting
C.   Selecting
D.   Organizing
Question #3
An important part of perceiving is the way in which you attempt to understand and make sense of situations you encounter. If you do this, in the context of Chapter 4, Chaffee would describe you as...
A.   An active participant
B.   A healthy skeptic
C.   A mature adult
D.   A responsible critic
Question #4
In order to explain the reason why people experience the same stimuli but have different perceptions, Chaffee uses this object as a metaphor. This object represents factors that influence our perceptions often without us realizing it.
A.   An umbrella
B.   A Rorschach test
C.   (Contact) lenses
D.   Headphones
Question #5
Chaffee illustrates different perceptions through differing accounts of Malcolm X’s death. Where and how was Malcolm X killed according to these reports?
A.   Fire at his home
B.   Shooting at a rally
C.   Beating by police in Harlem
D.   Murder in a hotel room
Question #6
According to Chaffee in Chapter 4, “Your perceptions of the world are dramatically influenced by your…”
A.   Past experiences
B.   Self-esteem
C.   Goals
D.   Relationship to others
Question #7
Representations of an interpretation, evaluation, conclusion about the nature of the world are known as…
A.   Beliefs
B.   Religion
C.   Biases
D.   Perceptions
Question #8
True or false: According to Chaffee, by definition, an important part of beliefs is the endorsement of their accuracy.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #9
Which of the following is NOT included in Chaffee’s three basic forms of belief?
A.   Reports
B.   Predictions
C.   Judgments
D.   Inferences
Question #10
According to Chaffee, because _______________________ play such an important role in our exchange and accumulation of information about the world, it is important that they be as accurate and complete as possible.
A.   News media
B.   Perceptions and beliefs
C.   Cognitive abilities
D.   Factual reports

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