Person perception
A judgement made when first meeting a person
What is a first impression?
an evaluation of something, such as a person, object, event, or idea
What is an attitude?
a widely held belief and generalisation about a group, such as people, animals or objects
What is a stereotype?
the psychological tension that occurs when our thoughts, feelings, and/ or behaviours do not align with one another
What is cognitive dissonance?
information processing strategies or ‘mental shortcuts’ that enable individuals to form judgements, make decisions, and solve problems quickly and efficiently
What is a heuristic?
I ran an experiment in classroom to highlight how discrimination can affect student's learning.
Who is Jane Elliott?
an evaluation made about the causes of behaviour and the process of making this evaluation
What is an attribution?
An attitude is learnt through this!
What is experience?
Believing that all elderly people are bad with technology is an example of this
What is ageism?
unconscious, systematic tendencies to interpret information in a way that is neither rational nor based on objective reality
What is cognitive bias?
Heuristics are fast, unconscious and automatic
what are the benefits of heuristics?
an often negative preconception held against people within a certain group or social category
What is prejudice?
when we judge behaviour as being caused by something personal within an individual
What is an internal attribution?
Pineapple belongs on pizza
What is an attitude?
Stereotypes can lead to this kind of unfair treatment based on group membership.
What is discrimination?
the tendency to attribute our own actions to external factors and situational causes while attributing other people’s actions to internal factors
What is the actor-observer bias?
an information-processing strategy that enables individuals to form a judgement, solve a problem, or make a decision based on information that is easily accessible
What is an availability heuristic?
the unjust treatment of people due to their membership within a certain social category
What is discrimination?
when we determine the cause of a behaviour as resulting from situational factors occurring outside the individual
What is an external attribution?
The tricomponent model involves an emotional component.
What is the affective component?
True or false: Stereotypes are always negative
What is false?
the tendency to attribute positive success to our internal character and actions and attribute our failures to external factors or situational causes
What is self serving bias
an information-processing strategy that involves using emotions to make a judgement or decision
What is an affect heuristic?
Beliefs Vs actions
What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?
our tendency to explain other people’s behaviour in terms of internal factors, while ignoring possible external factors
What is the fundamental attribution error?
ABC of an attitude
What is the tricomponent of an attitude?
Saying that all men are naturally good at math is an example of this kind of stereotype.
What is a gender stereotype?
The tendency to search for and accept information that supports our prior beliefs or behaviours and ignore contradictory information
What is confirmation bias?
an information processing strategy that involves forming judgements based on the first information received about an idea or concept
What is an anchoring heuristic?
Education and inter-group contact
What are methods implemented to reduce discrimination?