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Social Psych Ch 03
Social Psych Chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social Perception | The process through which we seek to know and understand others |
| Nonverbal Communication | Communication between individuals that does not involve the content of spoken language; Relies on unspoken language of facial expressions, eye contact, and body language |
| Attribution | The process through which we attempt to understand the reasons behind others' behavior (why they have acted as they have in a given situation, what goals they are seeking) |
| Impression Formation | How we form first impressions of others |
| Impression Management | Efforts by individuals to produce favorable first impressions on others |
| Paralinguistic Cues | Changes in the tone or inflection of others' voices |
| Facial Feedback Hypothesis | View that facial expressions can actually trigger emotions |
| Linguistic Style | Aspects of speech apart from the meaning of the words employed |
| Microexpressions | Fleeting facial expressions lasting only a few tenths of a second |
| Interchannel Discrepancies | Inconsistencies between nonverbal cues from different basic channels |
| Correspondent Inference | Theory describing how we use others' behavior as a basis for inferring their stable dispositions |
| Noncommon Effects | Effects produced by a particular cause that could not be produced by any other apparent cause |
| Consensus | The extent to which other people react to some stimulus or even in the same manner as the person we are considering |
| Consistency | The extent to which an individual responds to a given stimulus or situation in the same way on different occasions |
| Distinctiveness | The extent to which an individual responds in the same maner to different stimuli or events |
| Action Identification | The level of interpretation we place on an action |
| Correspondence Bias | The tendency to explain others' actions as stemming from dispositions even in the presence of clear situational causes |
| Fundamental Attribution Error | The tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional cues on others' behavior |
| Actor-Observer Effect | The tendency to attribute our own behavior mainly to situational cues but the behavior of others mainly to internal causes |
| Self-Serving Bias | The tendency to attribute positive outcomes to internal causes but negative outcomes or events to external causes |
| Thin Slices | refers to small amounts of info about others we use to form first impressions of them |
| Implicit Personality Theories | Beliefs about what traits or characteristics tend to go together |
| Self-Enhancement | efforts to increase appeal to others |
| Other-Enhancement | Efforts to make the target person feel good in various ways |
| Ingratiation | flattering others in various ways |
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