MGT 291 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Psychological Contract, Social Perception, Selective Perception
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Chapter 6 social perception, attributions, and perceived fairness. Social perception: the process through which we use available information to form impressions of others. Schema: organized patterns or thoughts or behaviors to help us quickly interpret and process information. Stereotype: a dysfunctional schema that is essentially an oversimplified schema for a group of people. Stereotyping: forming oversimplified beliefs about an individual or a group based on the idea that everyone in that particular group will behave the same way. They allows us to focus on some information and ignore other information. The allow us to infer facts beyond the information immediately available to us. They help us properly relate to our surrounding. First impressions people look at how you dress, talk, and act to infer characteristics about you and form a positive or negative attitude toward you. Goals of the perceiver: identifying how the other person affects our pursuit of goals.
