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Social Perception
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social Perception | a general term for the processes by which people come to understand one another |
| attribution theory | describes the process by which we makeattributions: explanations for others’ behaviour |
| availabiltiy heuristics | the tendency to estimate the likelihood that an event will occur by how easily instances of it come to mind (how readily available the memory is) |
| fundamental attributions error (F.A.E) | the tendancy to focus on the role of personal causes and underestimate the impact of situations on others peoples behaviour |
| Base-rate fallacy | the finding that people are relatively insensitive to consensus information presented in the from of numerical base rates |
| false-consensus effect | the tendency for people to overestimate the extent to which others share their opinions, attributes and behaviours |
| counterfactual thinking | the tendency to imagine alternative events of outcomes that might have occurred but did not |
| confirmation bias | our tendency to seek interpret and create information that verifies existing beliefs |
| belief perserverance | the tendency to maintain beleifs even after that have been discredited |
| priming effects | The tendency for recently usedwords to come to mind easily and influence theinterpretation of new information. |
| implicit personality theory | A network ofassumptions that we make about therelationships among traits and behaviours. |
| central traits | Traits that exert a powerfulinfluence on overall impressions. |
| personal attribute | attribution to internal characteristics of an actor such as ability, personality, mood or effort |
| situational attribution | attribution to factors external to an actor such as the task, other people or luck |
| self-fulfilling prophecy | the process by which ones expectations about a person eventually lead that person to behave in ways that confirm those expectations |
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