PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Impression Formation, Crime Scene Getaway, Nanny
29 Sep 2016
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Social psych lecture 4: the way we seek to know and understand other persons and events, scenario. Your driving in your hooty in a badass neighborhood at. You see a set of headlights coming towards you and drives up to you and see that they are teenagers. You see another set of headlights and see that it"s a state trooper (middle-aged white man). Who would you choose to ride with: not a single, instantaneous event comprises of a number of ongoing processes that are judgmental. Deals with people"s past behavior and how such past behavior/information can predict future actions: social perception/cognitive processes can be divided into two general areas: impression formation and attribution process. Impression formation: the process by which one integrates various sources of information about another into an overall judgment. Based on rapid assessments of observable qualities and behaviors in others. Obtained mostly by attending to nonverbal cues.
