Social Perception and Behavior

Question 1

Social Perception

Answer 1

(Social cognition). The way by which we generate impressions about other people in our social environment. It contains a perceiver, a target, and situation.

Question 2

Social Capital

Answer 2

Non-financial Social assets that promote Social mobility beyond economic means. Examples include education, intellect, dress, or physical appearance

Question 3

Implicit Personality Theory

Answer 3

States that people make assumptions about how different types of people, their traits, and behavior are related

Question 4

Cognitive Biases (6)

Answer 4

1. Primacy effect
2. Recency effect
3. Reliance on central traits
4. Halo effect
5. Just-world hypothesis
6. Self-serving bias

Question 5

Attribution Theory

Answer 5

Focuses on the tendency for individuals to infer the causes of other people’s behavior

Question 6

Dispositional

Answer 6

Internal. Causes of behavior are internal

Question 7

Situational

Answer 7

External. Surroundings or context cause behavior.

Question 8

Correspondent Inference Theory

Answer 8

Focuses on the intentionality of a person’s behavior. When someone unexpectedly does something that either helps or hurts us, we form a dispositional attribution; we correlate the action to the person’s personality

Question 9

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 9

The bias toward making dispositional attributions rather than situational attributions in regards tot he actions of others

Question 10

Attribution Substitution

Answer 10

Occurs when individuals must make judgements that are complex but instead substitute a simpler solution or heuristic

Question 11

Actor-Observer Bias

Answer 11

Tendency to attribute your own actions to external causes and others’ actions to dispositional causes