Social Perception Flashcards
What is social perceeption?
study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people as sovereign personalities
What is affect blends?
Facial expressions revealing two or more emotions simultaneously.
What are Display Rules?
a social group or culture’s informal norms that distinguish how one should express themselves
What is Thin-Slicing?
used to describe the ability to find patterns in events based only on “thin slices”, or narrow windows, of experience
What is primacy effect?
refers to the tendency to recall information presented at the start of a list better than information at the middle or end.
What is attribution theory?
the process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events
What is internal attribution?
when an individual uses a personal reason as the cause for a situation or event
What is external attribution?
refers to inferring that situational factors are the cause of an event or behavior
What is covariation model?
theory in which people make causal inferences to explain why other people and ourselves behave in a certain way
What is distinctiveness information?
when a behavior or action by an individual is judged by another to be common or unusual
What is fundamental attribution error
to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors in judging others’ behavior
What is a two-step process of attribution?
to assume the persons behavior is due to their personality. The second step is to think about the situation the person is in
What are self-serving attributions?
People make attributions in order to help make sense of the world and to confirm patterns
What is belief in a just world?
the tendency to believe that the world is just and that people get what they deserve
What is a belief perseverance?
the tendency to cling to one’s initial belief even after receiving new information that contradicts or disconfirms the basis of that belief
