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social perception and cognition |
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the way we seek to know and understand other people and events. ---impression formation ---attribution process |
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the process by which one integrates various sources of info about another into overall judgement --rapid assessment --nonverbal cues --integrative |
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social categorization process how is s.c. good? how is s.c. bad? |
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the classification of people into groups based on their common attributes... leads to stereotypes good - allows us to form impressions quickly bad - can lead to overestimation of differences btw groups |
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stereotype how is it good? how is it bad? |
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a fixed way of thinking about people that puts them into categories and doesn't allow for individual variation good - efficient bad - inhibit thought |
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facial expressions eye contact body movements |
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charles darwin: they are universal, understood throughout the world. necessary to understand them for survival. people are most attentative to facial expressions that convey danger |
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| three reactions to perceiving groups |
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stereotypes prejudice discrimination |
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| groups other than your own |
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| two reasons for the tendency to perceive outgroups as homogenous |
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little personal contact do not encounter a representative sample |
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when an object of a stereotype differs from that stereotype, the difference is magnified |
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| realistic conflict theory |
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direct competition for valuable but limited resources breeds hostility between groups |
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what do winners feel? what do losers feel? |
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winners - protective, threatened losers - frustrated |
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| ones innacurate perception |
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you feel as though you fare poorly compared to others |
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you feel as though you deserve something that you were deprived, concern for ones own self interest |
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| concern for group interest |
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an explanation of ingroup favoritism we strive to enhance our self-esteem through the groups to which we belong |
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social identity - good? social identity - bad? |
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boost self esteem feel need to belittle outgroups |
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theory of how other people explain others' behavior with two different explanations for the behavior dispositional (internal) causes situational (external) causes |
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theory of correspondent inferences |
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Edward Jones and Keith Davis People try to infer from an action whether the act itself corresponds to enduring personal characteristics -- dispositional inferences choice, expectedness, and consequences of behavior influence actions that may have a dispositional cause |
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Harold Kelly... people attribute behavior to factors that are present when a behavior occurs and absent when it does not consistency, distinctiveness, and consensus |
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| combining different pieces of info about a person into an overall impression |
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| ways that let us think quickly and easily but frequently lead to error |
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| tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share opinions attitutes and behaviors |
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| tendency to estimate the odds that an event will occur by how quickly instances of it come to mind |
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| tendency to rely on anecdotal stories rather than statistics |
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