PSY2SOC Lecture Notes - Impression Formation, Verbal Behavior
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Be able to describe briefly how we from first impressions of others, Be familiar with notions of correspondent inference and referring to two stages. Understand how considered impressions are made and what people do with them once they are formed. Be able to explain briefly why first impressions are difficult to change. Be able to give an example of self-fulfilling prophecy. The processes of impression formation: first impressions (superficial processing) Inferring personality from behaviour, appearance and demeanour: considered impressions (systematic processing) Various factors influence depth of processing in impression formation. How carefully you process information providing implications on your impressions of others. Cues implying something about the persons group membership (i. e age, gender, occupation, ethnicity) Cues that imply something specific about person(i. e clothing, hair style) Physical appearance (i. e facial contour [baby faced], height, body size) Verbal & non verbal behaviour (i. e emotion expression, hand movements, dialect) The social context and context-person match (i. e lecturer rocking up in p. js)
