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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.   Believing
C.   Inferring
D.   Judging
Question #2
Chaffee breaks down perceiving into three smaller actions. Which is the following is NOT an action associated with perceiving?
A.   Participating
B.   Selecting
C.   Organizing
D.   Interpreting
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.   A healthy skeptic
B.   An active participant
C.   A responsible critic
D.   A mature adult
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.   Headphones
B.   (Contact) lenses
C.   An umbrella
D.   A Rorschach test
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.   Shooting at a rally
B.   Fire at his home
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.   Relationship to others
C.   Self-esteem
D.   Goals
Question #7
Representations of an interpretation, evaluation, conclusion about the nature of the world are known as…
A.   Biases
B.   Beliefs
C.   Perceptions
D.   Religion
Question #8
True or false: According to Chaffee, by definition, an important part of beliefs is the endorsement of their accuracy.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #9
Which of the following is NOT included in Chaffee’s three basic forms of belief?
A.   Judgments
B.   Inferences
C.   Predictions
D.   Reports
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.   Perceptions and beliefs
B.   Factual reports
C.   Cognitive abilities
D.   News media

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