Chapter 2 Flashcards
What is perception?
To organize or interpret the meaning. Based on perception of reality - not reality itself
What are the three factors that affect perception?
The three factors that affect perception are: the PERCEIVER the TARGET and the SITUATION.
What is the perceiver?
The perceiver is the attitudes motives and past experience.
What is the target?
The target is what we see: people motion sounds and size
What is the situation?
The situation is: context timing work or social setting.
What is the attribution theory?
Ask yourself this question: is behaviour INTERNALLY or EXTERNALLY caused?
What is a fundamental attribution error?
FAE is when you underestimate external and overestimate internal when judging people.
What is a self-serving bias?
self-serving biased people attribute success to internal factors and blames failures on external factors
What are the three rules about behavior?
The three rules include DISTINCTIVENESS CONSENSUS and CONSISTENCY
What is distinctiveness?
Distinctive this is when we ask whether the individual does the same thing in other situations
What is consensus?
Consensus is when we ask whether anyone in a similar situation would act the same way.
What is consistency?
Consistency is when we ask whether the individual has been acting the same way over a long period of time.
What is selective perception?
Selective perception is when we interpret based on interests background attitude and experience. It is usually based on your own experience. Example when Jerry thought that everybody had a grey honda because she did.
What is the halo effect?
The halo effect is we when we make a judgement about a person based on one characteristic
What is the contrast effect?
The contrast effect is when we evaluate a person by comparing that person to others recently encountered.