SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Covariance, Fundamental Attribution Error, Trait Theory

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Erica Speakman

Document Summary

The inference of co-occurrence of personality traits based on another personality trait. The tendency to infer that a person has a number of positive traits based off of their few good traits that we see. We assume people who are physically attractive have better traits. A teacher believing/assuming a gifted student in their class has social issues or assuming a student who does poorly is just a bad kid. You"re about to get intimate with somebody, you assume they are clean by the way they look and act and take the risk without asking them if they have an sti. Process of creating a coherent picture of someone based on many sources of information. Certain traits ranking high in our perception of a person. Impacts overall impression w also impacts how we perceive the other traits associated with the individual.