Social Perceptions

Question 1

An active process through which we seek to know and understand others.

Answer 1

Social Perception

Question 2

It is one of the basic and most important aspects of social life.

Answer 2

Social Perceptions

Question 3

These are fleeting facial expressions lasting a few tenths of second. Such reactions appear on the face after an emotion-provoking event are difficult to suppress.

Answer 3

MICROEXPRESSIONS

Question 4

It refers to the process of understanding and thinking about people within social situations, as one tends to try and explain the behavior of others

Answer 4

Attribution

Question 5

What do you call these inconsistencies between non-verbal cues and different basic channels.

Answer 5

Interchannel Discrepancies

Question 6

When people lie, the pitch of their voices often rises and they tend to speak more slowly and with less fluency, what do you call these

Answer 6

Paralanguage

Question 7

Person shows often blink more frequently and show pupils that are more dilated, they may also show an unusually low or high level of eye contact

Answer 7

Various Eye contact

Question 8

He argued that people try to identify the dispositional properties that underlie observed behavior and do so by attributing behavior either to internal attribution (Dispositional) and External attribution (situational)

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Fritz Heider

Question 9

It is the process of assigning the cause of behavior to some internal characteristics, rather than to outside forces

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Internal Attribution

Question 10

The process of assigning the cause of behavior to some situations or event outside a person’s control rather than ti some internal characteristics

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External Attribution

Question 11

This theory is concerned with how people decide, on the basis of others overt actions, that they possess specific traits or dispositions that they carry with them from situation to situation, and that remain fairly stable over time.

Answer 11

Correspondent inference theory

Question 12

When we infer other’s traits from their behavior, we accomplish three distinct task:

Answer 12

A. Categorize an individual’s behavior
B. Characterize the behavior
C. Correct our inferences about this person’s trait in the light of information about the situation in which it has occurred.

Question 13

According to Correspondent inference theory, we are most likely to conclude that others’s behavior reflects their stable traits when the behavior is:

Answer 13

1. Freely chosen
2. Yields distinctive, non-common effects
3. Low in social desirability

Question 14

These theory illustrates that our knowledge of behavior is used to make attributions based on the consesus,consistency and distinctiveness of the available information.

Answer 14

Kelley’s theory of causal attribution

Question 15

This theory looks at how such information co-varies with each other.

1. Is there consensus?
2. Is there consistency?
3. Is there distinctiveness?

Answer 15

Kelley’s theory of causal attribution

Question 16

Kelley believed that There were 3 types of causal information which influenced our judgements.

Answer 16

CONSESUS
DISTINCTIVENESS
CONSISTENCY

Question 17

These is the kind of causal information.
The extent to which other people behave in the same way in a similar situation.

eg. Everybody in the audience is laughing.
______ is high,
if only tom is laughing.
_______ is low

Answer 17

Concensus

Question 18

These is the kind of causal information.
The extent to which the person behaves like this every time the situation occurs.

eg. 
Tom always laughs at this comedian. 
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is high
Tom rarely laughs at this comedian. 
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is low

Answer 18

Consistency

Question 19

These is the kind of causal information.
The extent to which the person behaves in the same way in similar situations.

eg.
Tom only laughs at this comedian.
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is high
If tom laughs at everything. 
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_is low

Answer 19

Distinctiveness

Question 20

The tendency to attribute other people’s behavior to internal factors such as personality traits, abilities, and feelings.

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Fundamental Attribution Error

Question 21

What are the three kinds of attributional bias?

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FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR
ACTOR-OBSERVER EFFECT
SELF-SERVING BIAS

Question 22

It is also called the correspondence bias, because it is assumed that other people’s behavior corresponds to their personal attributes.

Answer 22

Fundamental attribution error

Question 23

The bias happens when individuals base their perceptions of others on internal factors such as personality,motives, or thoughts.

Answer 23

Actor-observer effect

Question 24

Tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

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Self serving bias

Question 25

You get an a for an essay and you attribute it to your own awesomeness.

What kind of self serving bias is this?

Answer 25

Positive event

Question 26

Alexis falls asleep in class. Sean attributes her behavior to laziness. When he fell asleep in class last week, however, he attributed his own behavior to the all-nighter he pulled finishing a term paper

Answer 26

Fundamental attribution error

Question 27

Attributing other people’s behavior to their characters and one’s own behavior to the situation

Answer 27

Actor -Observer Effect

Question 28

We do not like to blame ourselves when something negative happens, so we point to the surroundings circumstances as the cause. On the other hand, we are quick to blame others when things go wrong, typically attributing it to some sort of personal shortcoming.

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Actor observer effect

Question 29

The process by which we form an overall impression of someone’s character and abilities based on available information about their traits and behaviors.

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Impression formation

Question 30

Factors that influence the relative weighting:

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1. The source of input
2. Whether the information is positive or negative in nature.
3. Extent to which the formation describes the behavior’s traits that are unusual or extreme.
4. Information received first tends to be weighted more heavily than information receive later known as the PRIMARY EFFECT

Question 31

What tactics do indivisual use to crate favorable impressions on others?

Answer 31

Self-enhancement

Other-enhancement