Social Perception

Question 1

3 steps of social perception

Answer 1

1. Perceive situational stimulus
2. Make an attribution for target person’s behavior
3. Form impression by combining information

Question 2

nonverbal cues examples

Answer 2

not easy to repress or hide true feelings
body movement
posture

Question 3

who studied facial expression?

Answer 3

Ekman

• 5-6 basic emotions
• universal in expression and perception

Question 4

eye contact does what?

Answer 4

often causes people to appear welcoming and positive

Question 5

define emblems

Answer 5

body symbols i.e. middle finger

Question 6

are females or males better at reading nonverbal cues?

Answer 6

females, not better at detecting lies though

Question 7

what is the cognitive tuning model?

Answer 7

how we detect facial expression, we adopt processing styles that are in tune with our mood

Question 8

what types of processing are used in serious and happy situations?

Answer 8

Serious: systematic
Happy: Heuristic

Question 9

Kelley’s anova process

Answer 9

compare observed behavior to 
other actors (consensus)
other situations (consistency)
other stimuli (distinctiveness)

Question 10

Gilbert’s modern model 3 stages

Answer 10

1. Categorize behavior (thats rude)
2. Trait/ dispositional inference (jerk)
3. Correct for situation? (almost missed exit)

Question 11

What is the just-world hypothesis?

Answer 11

Assume that good things happen to good people and vice versa

Question 12

2 models of Asch

Answer 12

Primacy effect and Gestalt model

Question 13

What is the Primacy Effect?

Answer 13

you tend to adhere to your initial impression of a person

Question 14

What is the Gestalt Model?

Answer 14

the whole is not just a sum of its parts (liking the beatles but not any of the members)

Question 15

What is Anderson’s Weighted Average Model?

Answer 15

We average all of the information that we get about a person but some is given more weight than others

Question 16

Memory Based model of Impression Formation

Answer 16

Retrieve certain memories and combine them (after the fact, not thinking about decision ahead of time)

Question 17

On-Line Model of Impression Formation

Answer 17

Keeping a running tally of information AS YOU RECEIVE IT, final tally

Question 18

specific event schema vs. prototypic event schema

Answer 18

SE: one series of events
PE: the same event in different situations

Question 19

Stages of social information processing

Answer 19

1. Exposure
2. Comprehension
3. Encoding and Interpreting
4. Represent
5. Retrieve
6. Combine/Integrate
7. Behavioral Response

Question 20

2 things the schemas are combination of

Answer 20

Past learning experiences and expectation for future experiences

Question 21

What is it called when schemas persist even after being discredited?

Answer 21

Perserverance

Question 22

Define prototype

Answer 22

something abstract, a list of attributes commonly possessed by a group

Question 23

What are base rates

Answer 23

the percent of an actual group in society

Question 24

What is the negativity bias?

Answer 24

giving more weight to negative information about a group than positive information

Question 25

Affect as information hypothesis

Answer 25

assume your affective state is how you feel about the person or thing

Question 26

Time 1 vs Time 2

Answer 26

1: Exposure and Attention, Comprehension, Encode and interpret
2. Represent, Retrieve, Combine and Integrate, Behavioral Response