Social Perception & Behavior

Question 1

Social Perception

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Social Capital

Answer 2

The practice of developing and maintaining
relationships that form social networks willing to help
each other

Question 3

Implicit Personality

Theoryq

Answer 3

Implicit Personality
Theory:
When we look at somebody for the first time, we pick
up on one of their characteristics. We then take that
characteristic and assume other traits about the
person based off of that one characteristic we first
picked up on

Question 4

List cognitive Biases

Answer 4

Primacy effect, recency effect, reliance on central
traits, halo effect, just-world hypothesis, 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 a 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 regard to the
actions of others.

Question 10

Attribution

Substitution:

Answer 10

Occurs when individuals must make judgments 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.