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AWA Chp 4
AWA Chp 4 Social Perception: How We Understand Others
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Encode | To express or emit nonverbal behavior such as smiling or making a gesture |
| Decode | To determine what nonverbal behavior means, interpreting what a kind of smile someone is making |
| Affect Blend | When one part of the face is making one expression, and another part is expressing another emotion |
| Display Rules | Culturally determining rules about which nonverbal behaviors are appropriate to display |
| 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 |
| Implicit Personality Theory | A type of schema people use to group things together- when someone is kind, they are also generous |
| Internal Attribution | Inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about the person, such as attitude, character, or personality |
| External Attribution | The inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something in that person's environment or situation |
| 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 |
| Consensus Information | Information about the extent to which other people behave the same way toward the same stimuli |
| Distinctiveness Information | Information about the extent to which one particular actor behaves the same way to different stimuli |
| Consistency Information | Information about the extent to which the behavior between one actor and one stimulus is the same across time and circumstances |
| Correspondence Bias | Tendency to infer that people's behavior corresponds to their personality |
| Perceptual Salience | The seeming importance of information that is the focus of people's attention |
| Two-step Process of Attribution | First making internal attribution and THEN thinking about external factors |
| 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 |
| Self-Serving Attribution | Explanations for your own behavior as situational but other's behaviors as dispositional |
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