SLS20 Chapter 13 Part 3: Stereotypes

Question 1

social cognition

Answer 1

The processes by which people come to understand others

Question 2

stereotyping

Answer 2

The process by which people draw inferences about others based on their knowledge of the categories to which others belong

Question 3

perceptual confirmation

Answer 3

A phenomenon that occurs when observers perceive what they expect to perceive

Question 4

self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 4

The tendency for people to cause what they expect to see

Question 5

subtyping

Answer 5

The tendency for people who are faced with disconfirming evidence to modify their stereotypes rather than abandon them

Question 6

attribution

Answer 6

An inference about the cause of a person’s behavior

Question 7

correspondence bias

Answer 7

The tendency to make a dispositional attribution even when a person’s behavior was caused by the situation

Question 8

actor-observer effect

Answer 8

The tendency to make situational attributions for our own behaviors while making dispositionl attributions for the identical behavior of others