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AWA Chp 4 Social Perception: How We Understand Others

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Encode   To express or emit nonverbal behavior such as smiling or making a gesture  
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Decode   To determine what nonverbal behavior means, interpreting what a kind of smile someone is making  
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Affect Blend   When one part of the face is making one expression, and another part is expressing another emotion  
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Display Rules   Culturally determining rules about which nonverbal behaviors are appropriate to display  
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Social Role Theory   The theory that sex differences in social behavior are due to society's division of labor between the sexes; this division leads to differences in gender-role expectations and sex-typed skills, both of which are responsible for differences  
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Implicit Personality Theory   A type of schema people use to group things together- when someone is kind, they are also generous  
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Internal Attribution   Inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about the person, such as attitude, character, or personality  
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External Attribution   The inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something in that person's environment or situation  
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Covariation Model   A theory that states that to form an attribution about what caused a person's behavior we systematically note the pattern between the presence or absence of possible causal factors pg. 107  
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Consensus Information   Information about the extent to which other people behave the same way toward the same stimuli  
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Distinctiveness Information   Information about the extent to which one particular actor behaves the same way to different stimuli  
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Consistency Information   Information about the extent to which the behavior between one actor and one stimulus is the same across time and circumstances  
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Correspondence Bias   Tendency to infer that people's behavior corresponds to their personality  
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Perceptual Salience   The seeming importance of information that is the focus of people's attention  
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Two-step Process of Attribution   First making internal attribution and THEN thinking about external factors  
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Actor-Observer Difference   The tendency to see other people's behavior as dispositionally cause but focusing more on the role of situational factors when explaining one's own behavior  
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Self-Serving Attribution   Explanations for your own behavior as situational but other's behaviors as dispositional  
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