PSY2203 Lecture 3: Impression Formation I

Question 1

Tell me about Ashes holistic model of impression formation.

Answer 1

“A glance, a few spoken words are sufficient to tell us a story about a highly complex matter”.

Had to write a thumbnail sketch of a person with listed traits. Created complex personality sketch. They

(i) formed a unified impression
(ii) went beyond the information given

Question 2

Tell me about Ashes study regarding order effects

Answer 2

Ps received list pos to neg or neg to pos.

Ps saw one as competent and ambitious, and the other as overly emotional and social maladjusted

Question 3

Tell me about Ashes work on trait centrality

Answer 3

Warm and Cold study. only that word different.
Then Ps do trait rating task.
Warm condition- amazing rating and vise versa

Central traits create expectancies, which can bias our interpretations of new infomation

Question 4

Tell me about Ashes work regarding physical priming of trait centrality

Answer 4

Primed with either holding a hot or iced coffee for a confederate while they filled out a participant consent form.

And then did warm and cold task.

Sig warmer when primed with hot coffee.