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• Perception – process through which people select, organize and
interpret sensory input to give meaning and order to the world
around them

• Biases – systematic tendencies to use information about others in ways that can result in inaccurate perceptions

• Stereotypes – often inaccurate beliefs about the characteristics of
particular groups of people
- Can interfere with the encoding and decoding of messages