Social Psychology Ch 3. Flashcards
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Social Perception
the process through which we seek to know other people. This process includes understanding the ways we gather and analyze information about others.
Staring:
a sign of anger or hostility
Body language:
Current moods/emotions. reflect in the position, postures, and movements of our bodies.
Facial feedback hypothesis:
the view that facial expressions can trigger emotions.
Micro expressions:
Fleeting facial expressions lasting only a few tenths of a second.
Inter-channel discrepancies:
Discrepancies between peoples facial expressions and their body language.
Exaggerated facial expressions:
Smiling more frequently than usual or showing an exaggerated level of interest in what they’re saying can reflect attempts in deception.
linguistic style:
Aspects of speech apart from meaning of words, such as pitch, speed, or pattern (rhythm).
Attribution:
Why people act a particular way to understand the causes of others behavior or our own.
Correspondent inference:
how we decide, on the basis of others overt actions, whether they possess specific traits or disposition likely to be fairly stable over time.
Consensus:
the extent to which other people react to a given stimulus or event in the same manner as the person we are evaluating. The higher proportion of people who react in the same way.
Consistency:
the extent to which the person reacts in the same manner to other different stimuli or events.
Distinctiveness:
the extent to which the person reacts in the same manner to other different stimuli or events.
Action Identification:
The level of interpretation we place on an action; low level interpretations focus on the action itself, whereas higher-level interpretations focus on its ultimate goal.
Fundamental attribution errors:
The tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositions (internal) cues on others behavior.
Correspondent bias:
attributing behavior to internal causes, when in the presence of external situations.
Actor-observer effects:
The tendency to attribute our own behavior to situational causes but the behavior of others mainly to internal (dispositional) causes.
Self-serving bias:
The tendency to attribute positive outcomes to internal causes (disposition) but negative outcomes or events to external causes (situational).
Hubris:
The tendency to hold exaggerated self-confidence and overly positive views about oneself.
Impression formation:
The process through form impressions of others.
Thin slices:
Small amounts of information about others we use to form first impressions of them.
Impression management:
Efforts by individuals to produce favorable first impressions on others (self-presentation).
Tactics to enhance our self-image:
Self enhancement: increase our appeal to others (i.e. enhance physical or professional appearance).
Other enhancement: Efforts to make target person feel good in various ways.
