Social Perception And Behavior

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This explains how we form impressions about the chracteristics of individuals and groups of people.

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Social Perception

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Components of Social Perception

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Perceiver

Target

Situation

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The perceiver of social

Perception if influenced by:

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Past experiences

Motives

Emotional State

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Difference of primacy effect and recency effect of social perception

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Idea that first impressions are important; idea that most recent information is important in forming our impressions

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Individuals tend to organize the perception of others based on traits and personal characteristics of the target that are most relevant to the perceiver.

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Reliance on central traits

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This theory states that there are sets of assumptions people make about how different types of people, their traits, and their behavior are related.

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Implicit personality theory

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Making assumptions about people based on the category in which they are placed

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Stereotyping

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Can explain why people perceived attractive people to be trustworthy and friendly

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Halo effect

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It is a cognitive bias in which judgments about specific aspect of an individual can be affected by one’s overall impression of the individual.

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Halo Effect

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It denies the possibility of good victims because good things only happens to good people and bad things only happens to bad people.

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Just-World Hypothesis

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It focuses on the need to maintain self-worth and can be done through internal attribution of succes and external attribution of failure.

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Self-enhancement

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Individual attributes success to internal locua of control while failures to external locus of control

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Self-Serving bias

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Which group will likely do a self-serving bias: close relationship, strangers, individuals who have high self-esteem?

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All except the close relationship

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It focuses on the tendency for individuals to infer the causes of other people’s bahavior.

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Attribution Theory

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These attributions are related to the characteristics of the individual as the primary cause.

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Dispositional Attributions

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This attribution is the same as the external locus of control.

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Situational Attribution

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This is likely to form when a person deviated from socially expected behavior.

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Dispositional attribution

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If a person behaves very different in every situations then

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Situational Attribution is formed

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What are the different cues and what would we expect to be done by the individual?

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Tells that we assume dispositional attributions more than the situational attributions.

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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It results from the self-serving bias ( by the actor ) and the fundamental attribution error ( by the observer ).

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Actor-observer asymmetry

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It occurs when individuals must make judgments that are complex, but instead they substitue a simple solution or apply a heuristic.

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Attribute Substitution

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T or F.Individualists are more likely to attribute behavior to dispositional factors wheras collectivist are more likely to attribute behavior to situational factors.

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