6A Judging and perceiving others

Question 1

person perception

Answer 1

different mental processes used to understand and form impressions of other people

Question 2

person perception - directly

Answer 2

provided from the person we are judging, through observing or interacting with them

Question 3

person perception - directly

Answer 3

through hearing about the person we are judging from another person or source

Question 4

first impressions

Answer 4

quick judgment or impression about a person based on EASILY ACCESSIBLE perceptual information
- physical cues, attention getting features, social categorisation

Question 5

attribution

Answer 5

an evaluation about the causes of behaviour and the process of making this evaluation

Question 6

internal attribution

Answer 6

jduge beavhiour as being caused by something personal within a person or individual

Question 7

external attribution

Answer 7

determining the cause of a behavior as resulting form situational factors occurring outside of the individual

Question 8

fundamental attribution error

Answer 8

tendency to explain
– other people’s behaviour due to internal factors while ignoring external factors
– attributing their own behaviour to external factors outside the individual

Question 9

attitude

Answer 9

evaluation of something, a person, object, thing or event, idea

Question 10

tricomponent model

Answer 10

relationship between the affective, behaviourl and cognitive components of out attitudes

Question 11

affective component

Answer 11

feelings and emotions towards teh object, person, idea or event

Question 12

beahviour component

Answer 12

outward or obseravle actions toward the object, person, diea or event

Question 13

cognitive component

Answer 13

thoughts and beliefs towards an object, person, idea or even

Question 14

stereotype

Answer 14

widely help belief and generalisation about the personal attributes and characters about a group of people
- cognitive component