U2 AOS 1 - Person Perception, Attributions, Attitudes and Sterotypes

Question 1

Person Perception

Answer 1

The process of forming
opinions about others and it is not always accurate.

Question 2

What can person perception be influenced by?

Answer 2

physical, appearance, body language, gender, age, ethnicity, dress, culture, how they move and speak, and disability.

Question 3

Attributions

Answer 3

An attribution is an evaluation made about the causes of behaviour and the process of making this evaluation.

Question 4

Personal attribution (internal)

Answer 4

explanations of a person’s behaviour based on their characteristics such as
their ability, personality and energy

Question 5

Situational attributions (external)

Answer 5

explanations of a
person’s behaviour based on factors outside the
person involved such as luck, or something in the environment

Question 6

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 6

the tendency to
overestimate the influence of personal factors and
underestimate the impact of situational factors on other people’s behaviour.

Question 7

Actor-Observer Bias

Answer 7

The tendency to attribute our own behaviour to situational factors but to attribute others behaviour to their internal factors.

Question 8

Self Serving Bias

Answer 8

The tendency to attribute our own successes to internal factors and our failures to our external factors.

Question 9

The Tricomponent Model of Attitudes

Answer 9

Also known as the A-B-C model says that affective, behavioural and cognitive
components must exist for an attitude to be present.

Question 10

A

Answer 10

Affective: how you ‘feel’ about the attitude object

Question 11

B

Answer 11

Behavioural: our actions that reflect our attitude

Question 12

C

Answer 12

Cognitive: – what you think’ about the attitude object

Question 13

Limitations of the model

Answer 13

Many psychologists suggest that only the affective (feel) and cognitive (think) components need to be
present for an attitude to exist

Often our behaviour does not reflect our attitude

Question 14

Stereotypes

Answer 14

A collection of beliefs that we have about people that belong to a certain group regardless of the individual Eg. Asians are good at math

Question 15

Stigma

Answer 15

a set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something
Eg. Assuming that someone with a mental illness is dangerous.

Question 16

Ingroups

Answer 16

Any group a person belongs to or identifies with

Question 17

Outgroups

Answer 17

Any group a person doesn’t belong to or identifies with