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  2. Impression management - Wikipedia

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    Impression management is a conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person, object or event by regulating and controlling information in social interaction. [1]

  3. Perception - Wikipedia

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    All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system. [3] Vision involves light striking the retina of the eye; smell is mediated by odor molecules; and hearing involves pressure waves.

  4. Third-person effect - Wikipedia

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    Scholars, however, have not found that third-person perception predicts willingness to censor news or political media content including censorship of press coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial, [19] support for an independent commission to regulate political communication, [20] or censorship for a Holocaust-denial advertisement. [21]

  5. Language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language.In other words, it is how human beings gain the ability to be aware of language, to understand it, and to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.

  6. Interpersonal perception - Wikipedia

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    Interpersonal perception is an area of research in social psychology which examines the beliefs that interacting people have about each other. This area differs from social cognition and person perception by being interpersonal rather than intrapersonal, and thus requiring the interaction of at least two actual people. [ 1 ]

  7. Hostile media effect - Wikipedia

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    Three cognitive mechanisms for explaining the hostile media effect have been suggested: [15]. Selective recall refers to memory and retrieval.In instances of the hostile media effect, partisans should tend to remember more of the disconfirming portions of a message than the parts that support their position, in a variation of the negativity effect.

  8. Speech perception - Wikipedia

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    Speech perception is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted, and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonology and phonetics in linguistics and cognitive psychology and perception in psychology. Research in speech perception seeks to understand how human listeners recognize ...

  9. Visual perception - Wikipedia

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    A 3 D model, where the scene is visualized in a continuous, 3-dimensional map. [36] Marr's 2 1 ⁄ 2 D sketch assumes that a depth map is constructed, and that this map is the basis of 3D shape perception. However, both stereoscopic and pictorial perception, as well as monocular viewing, make clear that the perception of 3D shape precedes, and ...