PSY 2110 Lecture : 4-social perception.docx
21 Sep 2014
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People also focus on salient features these are very distinct and sets you apart from other: processing information about people involves perceiving some coherent meaning in that person, we organize by categorizing or grouping stimuli (cid:224) schemas, our needs and goals influence how we perceive others. The person who is perceiving the target/judging him or her/evaluating him or her: assumption: most studies of person perception are designed as a one way process for practical reasons (i. e. the observer perceives the target), but in reality the process is bidirectional. Self fulfilling prophecies (darley & fazio, 1980: when an initially inaccurate expectation leads to actions that causes on expectation to come true, self fulfilling prophecies also has an effect on other people, essentially the process by which ones expectation about a person will eventually lead that said person to behave in a way that confirms that expectation.
