PSYC 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psych
2 Oct 2016
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Shifting focus: looking outwards and trying to figure out how we perceive others and how others perceive us. The self concept is still a complete anchor point as the social perception and our grounding of the world. Humans as social animals take in information then process that information so that we can understand what"s happening around us. Naturally biased; sometimes it creeps outside of our being and form opinions that are unfair to others and we are unaware at times of his bias. There are prejudgements of people that are innate to us (old-generation names vs. new generation names) Can be very hard to change our first impressions on people; not mathematically going to happen easily. Primacy effect: first information that is perceived is more important than the information that happens afterwards. First word holds the most power of perception within this o.
