Social Perception Principles
What is Social Perception?
How we form impressions and make inferences about people’s behavior
What are the 2 types of attributions we make when explaining behaviors called?
Situational and Dispositional
When Ytzel arrives late to class you believe it was because of traffic what type of attribution did you make?
Situational
What is being ignored in Fundamental Attribution Error/Correspondence Bias?
Situational Factors
When our favorite team loses we tend to blame the referees for poor officiating (situational) but when they win we attribute it to the other team sucking, what is this an example of?
Ultimate Attribution Error
According to the Primacy effect out of these words which are you most likely to remember: Apple, Banana, Orange, Kiwi, Peach, Mango
Apple
Situational Attributions explain behavior through what factors?
External Factors
You see that George won the quiz review and make an inference that he is smart what type of attribution did you make?
Dispositional
What is the possible consequence of the Ultimate Attribution Error?
Can cause Prejudice/Discrimination
When late night TV show James Corden is on tv he is all happy and nice. However, in reality he is not all that pleasant of a human being. This is an example of?
Hollywood Attribution Error
According to the Recency Effect out of these words which are you most likely to remember: Red, Blue, Orange, Green, Yellow, Purple
Purple
Dispositional Attributions explain behavior through what factors?
Internal
People from collectivistic cultures (like India) are most likely to make what attribution?
Situational
Giancarlo Esposito who is known to play Villains (like Gustavo Fring, Anton Castillo & Moff Gideon) is actually a very nice person in real life despite that due to his villainous roles people might view him as intimidating, this is known as?
Hollywood Attribution Error
Mykel watched Dr. Duff rob a store and thought "what a lunatic." What error/bias did he partake in?
Correspondence Bias/Fundamental Attribution Error
What role do you play in the actor/observer effect?
Both the Actor and Observer
Americans explain behaviors using trait like terms, what attributions are they most likely to make?
Dispositional
What is Growth and Fixed Mindset?
Growth means we believe we can learn through effort and Fixed means we either possess the trait or not (We can not change)
What is the Halo Effect?
When you hear a positive trait about someone then imagine them with all these other good traits
Ryan is handsome and very well liked. When he is described by other people, they automatically assume that he has other great qualities. What is this an example of?
Halo Effect
When you tend to focus more on the dispositional explanation rather than the situational explanation what is that called?
Correspondence Bias/Fundamental Attribution Error
There are 4 reasons for Correspondence Bias (in individualistic cultures) what are 2 of them?
- Behaviors are more noticeable than the situation
- Not enough weight is assigned to the situation
- Humans are cognitive misers
- Traits are like language in our culture
How are primacy and recency effect different and alike?
- They are alike in the way that positioning/order determine which item is most likely to be remembered
- Different in the way that one suggest that the item that is mentioned first will most likely be remembered and the other suggests that the item mentioned last will most likely be remembered
What’s the key difference between Fundamental and Ultimate Attribution Error?
Fundamental refers to 1 person while Ultimate refers to an entire group
JJ witnessed a store get robbed by Dr. Duff, and assumed that the store owner deserved it. What is this an example of?
Just World Hypothesis