Social Perception and Attribution - Social perception

11 important questions on Social Perception and Attribution - Social perception

What is the name of a character trait that social perceivers view as an integral part of what makes up a person's personality?

EX: warm/cold = a trait that alters the meaning of the perceived person's whole personality; if the perceivers think the perceived to be warm, they are way more likely to describe them positively or in other ways compared to when they think them to be cold

Central trait

What is the name of a character trait that (as opposed to a central trait) does not significantly change the overall interpretation of a perceived person's personality?

EX: polite/blunt = a trait that, as opposed to cold/warm, does not alter the meaning of the perceived person's whole personality; perceivers do not view these traits as affecting the perceived's whole personality

Peripheral trait

What is the name of the effect/tendency a person has to let the information they receive earlier to have more influence on their social perception and interpretation?

Primacy effect
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What is summation in a perceiver's process of social perception of a person, which is actually not simply how people construct a view of someone's personality (since people actively construct this view based on their ideas of how traits form a personality)?

Adding together pieces of information about the person

What is a person's implicit personality theory which impacts their social perception and interpretation when actively constructing a view of someone's personality?

The combined ideas (theory) a person has about how different traits tend to be organized within a person

What does the configural model say about how people form impressions of others and their personalities?

That people form holistic impressions of other people, consisting of components: a social perceiver actively constructs deeper meaning about the personality by trying to discern the pieces of information into (personality) patterns

What does the configural model say about how people form impressions of others and their personalities?

That people form holistic impressions of other people, consisting of components: a social perceiver actively constructs deeper meaning about the personality by trying to discern the pieces of information into (personality) patterns

What is the process of averaging, a model that explains how people form impressions of others?

Perceivers work out the mean value of pieces of information about a person to get an overall idea of their personality

EX: a person described as 'warm' + 'boring' is of less positive impression than 'warm' + 'interesting', but of more positive impression than 'cold' + 'boring'

What is the process of averaging, a model that explains how people form impressions of others?

Perceivers work out the mean value of pieces of information about a person to get an overall idea of their personality

EX: a person described as 'warm' + 'boring' is of less positive impression than 'warm' + 'interesting', but of more positive impression than 'cold' + 'boring'

What is a self-fulfilling prophecy, a phenomenon that has an impact on impression formation?

When an originally false expectation leads to its own confirmation: a perceiver has actually incorrect beliefs about a target which causes the target to behave in ways that confirm those beliefs

What is a self-fulfilling prophecy, a phenomenon that has an impact on impression formation?

When an originally false expectation leads to its own confirmation: a perceiver has actually incorrect beliefs about a target which causes the target to behave in ways that confirm those beliefs

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