Person Perception

Question 1

Person perception

Answer 1

The study of how we form and maintain impressions of others

Question 2

‘Thin slicing’

Answer 2

Impressions are created with a very small glimpse of a person i.e. video of a teacher and their teaching style

Question 3

What is true of impressions?

Answer 3

1. They are made quickly and efficiently.
2. They are resistant to change
3. Other info is interpreted in line

Question 4

What do we use when making impressions?

Answer 4

Physical cues, economical, informative

Question 5

1 approach we use when integrating info into an impression

Answer 5

Normative: rational and logical, like the naive scientist

Question 6

2 approach we use when integrating info into an impression

Answer 6

Cognitive: shortcuts when we don’t have time, like the cognitive miser

Question 7

Anderson’s info integration theory

Answer 7

A weighted average of traits, which means new traits will decrease “score” of someone

Question 8

What are the factors that affect our integration?

Answer 8

Primacy effects, priming, positive vs. negative information, internal cues

Question 9

Perseverance effect

Answer 9

We believe in discredited theories (vaccines and autism)

Question 10

Confirmatory hypothesis testing

Answer 10

Seeking confirming evidence

Question 11

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 11

Expectations cause something to become true i.e. a teacher’s expectations for a student cause the student to behave poorly

Question 12

How accurate are our impressions?

Answer 12

More accurate with friends vs. strangers and less biased when we’re motivated to be right

Question 13

Mind perception

Answer 13

Process by which people attribute human-like mental states to inanimate/animate objects, including other people