SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Confirmation Bias, Impression Formation, Ebay
13 May 2016
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Social perception refers to constructing an understanding of the social world from the processes by which we form impressions of other people"s traits and. Making sense of the social world the data we get through our senses. The process of what social psychologists call attributions. personalities. Attribution refers to the process of inferring the causes of a person"s behaviour. Then we revert backwards to the cause e. g. motives, traits, and situational pressures. (focuses of them as an individual, with internal/individual attributions. For example, a highway jam would be situational attribution. Behaviour is with something that they didn"t control. Heider and simmel an experimental study of apparent behaviour (1944) Attributing traits and personalities just to shapes. A lot of people distributed aggression to the bigger triangle. We have a desire/tendency to make items have qualities. We used schemas a well-organized structure of cognitions (ideas or notions)
