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PSY-210
Social Perception
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Evolutionary Psychology | Attempt to understand modern day traits and preferences by considering the pressures that have shaped ancestors. Focus on behaviors that enhance survival, mating game, and detecting foes |
| Karl Grammer | Observed tightness of clothes, amount of skin exposure, 'explosiveness' in turning around. |
| Paul Eckman | expression of emotion on the face. microexpressions are fleeting facial expressions lasting only a tenth of a second. detecting liars |
| Handshake Study | Judges trained on neutral handshaking and 8 dimensions of handshaking. There was a deceptive cover story and only firmness mattered. |
| What traits was firm handshake correlated with? | more extraverted, less neurotic, less shy, and for women, more open to new experiences |
| What traits was weak handshake correlated with? | introverted, neurotic, and unexpressive |
| What is social perception? | process by which we seek to know and understand people |
| Explain impression management | Maintaining a good self-representation. Efforts by people to produce favorable first impressions in others |
| Strategies for impression management | 1. Self-enhancing: appearnace, self-handicapped 2. other-enhancing: flattery and agreement |
| Self-representation on facebook | Facebook profiles tend to reflect actual personality, not self-idealization. |
| Describe attribution | the process thru which we seek to understand the causes of others' behavior. Helps us predict behaviors. |
| What are situational attributions? | Those that rely on the situation for an explanation of behavior |
| What are dispositional attributions? | Those that rely on personality for an explanation of behavior |
| What is fundamental attribution error? | The tendency to overestimate that impact of dispositional attributions, even in the presence of clear situational causes |
| Describe the actor-observer effect | The tendency to attribute our own behaviors to situational causes |
| Perceptual salience | The seeming importance of information that is the focus of peoples attention |
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