Reverse Definitions Flashcards
The study of how we form impressions of other people and make inferences about them
Social perception
The way in which people communicate intentionally or unintentionally without words nonverbal cues include facial expressions tone of voice jesters body position and movement to use a touch and Eye gaze
Nonverbal communication
To express or emit nonverbal behaviour such as smiling or patting someone on the back
Encode
To interpret the meaning of the nonverbal behaviour other people express such as deciding that a pat on the back was an expression of consideration and not kindness
Decode
A facial expression in which one part of the face registers one emotion well another part of the face for registers a different emotion
Affect blend
Culturally determined rules about which emotional expressions are appropriate to show
Display rules
Nonverbal gestures that have well understood definitions within a given culture they usually have direct verbal translation such as the OK sign
Emblems
A type of schema people used to group various kinds of personality traits together for example many people believe that if someone is kind she is generous as well
Implicit personality theory
A description of the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people’s behaviour
Attribution theory
The inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about him or her such as his or her attitude and character or personality
Internal attribution
The inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about the situation they are in, the assumption is that most people would respond the same way in that situation
External attribution
Information about the extent to which other people behave the same way as the actor does towards the same stimulus
Consensus information
The inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about the situation he or she is in the assumption is that the most people would respond the same way in that situation
External attribution
Information about the extent to which other people behave the same way as the actor does towards the same stimulus
Consensus information
Information about the extent to which one particular actor behaves in the same way to different stimuli
Distinctiveness information
Information about the extent to which the behaviour between one actor and one stimulus is the same across time and circumstance
Consistency information
The tendency to infer that people’s behaviour corresponds to or matches their disposition (personality)
Correspondence bias
Information that is the focus of peoples attention people tend to overestimate the causal role of perceptually salient information
Perceptual Salience
Analyzing another person’s behaviour first by making an automatic internal attribution and only then thinking about possible situational reasons for the behaviour after which one may adjust the original internal attribution
Two-step process of attribution
