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Social Perception
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do Social Psychologists examine? | The human mind and human behavior from a number of angles. |
| What is the goal of social psychologists? | To study the interaction of people with and within their environment. |
| How can social psychologists study people's interactions and such? | Look at the social world's effect on the individual, the individual's effect on groups and the social world, and groups and their effect on the group and individuals |
| What is the primacy effect? | The first information learned about someone influences us more than later information |
| What is an example of primacy effect? | When you meet certain people on the first day of school |
| What are self-fulfilling prophecies? | Expectations that change one's own behavior in such a way as to increase the probability of the predicted event? |
| What are some examples of the self-fulfilling prophecies? | The Phone conversation study with guys who rated a girl they talked to on the phone based only on a picture. Also, The pygmalion effect which is phenomenon whereby the greater the expectation placed upon people, the better they perform |
| Stereotypes? | Generalized beliefs or expectations about a group of people that we form |
| Prejudice | An unfavorable attitude toward a member of a group, solely because he or she is a member of that group |
| Discrimination | Unfair treatment of a member of a group, solely because he or she is a member of that group |
| How do we form perceptions? | Through attributions |
| Attributions | The processes that we use in order to assign causes to behavior |
| Internal Attributions | Explaining behaviors based on the internal characteristics of the person in question |
| External Attributions | Explaining behaviors based on the situation and surrounding environment |
| Fundamental Attribution Error | Our tendency to attribute behaviors to internal attributions when explaining the behaviors of others |
| What are examples brought up in class of the fundamental attribution error? | The pro/anti castro essay example and differences amongst cultures with the fish visualization |
| Actor-Observer Effect | The tendency to make internal attributions for others, while making external attributions for ourselves |
| Self-Serving Bias | The tendency to attribute personal failures to the situation, while attributing personal successes to ourselves |
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