S4- Social Cognition and Person Perception

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Social categorization

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The process of forming categories of people based on their common attributes

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Social cognition

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The way in which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world

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Prototype

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The most representative member of a category

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Schema

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A schema is an organized structure of knowledge about a stimulus that is built up from experience and that contains causal relations; it is a theory about how the social world operates

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Gender schema

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A cognitive structure for processing information based on it’s perceived female or male qualities

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Script

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A schema that describes how a series of events is likely to occur in a well-known situation and which is used as a guide for behavior ad problem solving

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Priming

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The process by which recent exposure to certain stimuli or events increases the accessibility of certain memories, categories, or schemas

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Heuristics

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Time-saving mental shortcuts that reduce complex judgements to simple rules

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Representativeness heuristic

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The tendency to judge the category membership of things based on how closely they match the “typical” or “average” member of that category

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Availability heuristic

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The tendency to judge the frequency or probability of an event in terms of how easy it is to think of examples of that event

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Anchoring and adjustment heuristic

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A tendency to be biased toward the starting value or anchor in making quantitative judgments

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Hindsight bias

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The tendency, once an event has occurred, to overestimate our ability to have foreseen the outcome

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Counterfactual thinking

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The tendency to evaluate events by imagining alternative versions or outcomes to what actually happened

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Thought suppression

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The attempt to prevent certain thoughts from entering consciousness

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Person perception

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The process by which we try to detect other people’s temporary states and enduring dispositions (also called social perception)

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Nonverbal communication

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Communicating feelings and intentions without words

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Nonconscious mimicry

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The tendency to adopt the behaviors, postures, or mannerisms of interaction partners without conscious awareness or intention

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Social role

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A cluster of socially defined expectations that individuals in a given situation are expected to fill

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Social role theory

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The theory that virtually all the documented behavioral differences between males and females can be accounted for in terms of cultural stereotypes about gender and the resulting social goals that are taught to the young

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Central traits

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Traits that exert a disproportionate influence on people’s overall impressions causing them to assume the presence of other traits

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Implicit personality theories

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A type of schema people use to organize and make sense of which personality traits and behaviors go together

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Confirmation bias

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The tendency to seek information that supports our beliefs while ignoring disconfirming information

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Attribution

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Process by which people use information to make inferences about the causes of behavior or events

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Internal attribution

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Attribution that locates the cause of an event two factors internal to the person such as personality traits, mode, attitude, abilities, or effort

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External attribution

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An attribution that locates the cause of an event to factors external to the person, such as a luck, or other people, or the situation

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Correspondent inference

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An inference that the action of an actor corresponds to or is indicative of a stable personal characteristic

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Covariation principle

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A principle of attribution theory stating that for something to be the cause of a particular behavior, it must be present when the behavior occurs and absent when it does not occur

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Discounting principle

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Principle of attribution theory stating that whenever there are several possible causal explanations for a particular event, people tend to be much likely much less likely to attribute the of effect to any particular cause

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Fundamental attribution error

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The tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional causes and underestimate the impact of situational causes on other people’s behavior

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Actor-observer effect

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The tendency for people to attribute their own behavior to external causes but that of others to internal factors

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Dual-process models of attribution

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Theories of attribution that propose that people initially engaged in a relatively automatic and simple attributional assessment but then later consciously correct this attribution with more deliberate and effortful thinking

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Pessimistic explanatory style

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A habitual tendency to attribute negative events to internal, stable, and global causes, and positive events to the external, unstable, and specific causes

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Optimistic explanatory style

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A habitual tendency to attribute negative events to external unstable and specific causes and positive events to internal stable and global causes