PSYC10004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pygmalion Effect, Impression Formation
28 Jun 2018
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LECTURE 11 – SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2 – situations with somebody else (reciprocal relationship) –
observe, make an impression and influence your behaviour
How we interact w/ the social environment
How humans respond to its stimuli
Person perception, person impression formation
oMake inferences about the person how will we behave towards them
E.g. more likely to approach someone of similar age
oSuperficial processing of information – fast (I.e based on appearance)
oSystematic processing of information – ability, motivation
Process info. deeply
If we are too tired or intoxicated can’t process
Effort, clear mind, process/integrate
info & make wise decision
FORMING FIRST IMPRESSIONS ABOUT A PERSON
Extracting cues from visual stimuli
oInferences based on cue (attributions)
Why? – memory associations, concepts, congregated
together
SNAP JUDGEMENTS?
Personality impression
oOne group of participants rated 66 faces on how trustworthy,
competent, likeable and aggressive compute for each face the
average ratings on these characteristics
Snap personality judgements
oA different group of participants viewed the same photos for
100ms, 500ms and 1000ms made snap judgement about each
person’s personality
Examine correlations between the personality impressions and the snap
judgements
oPeople’s snap judgements were very similar to more considered
impressions
Took 100ms to judge
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Document Summary
Lecture 11 social psychology 2 situations with somebody else (reciprocal relationship) observe, make an impression and influence your behaviour. How we interact w/ the social environment. Person perception, person impression formation: make inferences about the person how will we behave towards them. E. g. more likely to approach someone of similar age: superficial processing of information fast (i. e based on appearance, systematic processing of information ability, motivation. If we are too tired or intoxicated can"t process. Effort, clear mind, process/integrate info & make wise decision. Extracting cues from visual stimuli: inferences based on cue (attributions) Personality impression: one group of participants rated 66 faces on how trustworthy, competent, likeable and aggressive compute for each face the average ratings on these characteristics. Snap personality judgements: a different group of participants viewed the same photos for. 100ms, 500ms and 1000ms made snap judgement about each person"s personality.
