COM 21200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Blackboard, Attribution Bias, Interpersonal Perception

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Communication
• Course: COM 21200
• Professor: Ashleigh Shields

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Agenda: wisdom wednesday, recap, activity, social cognition in interpersonal interaction, homework. What do you do: 4. organizing stimulus (our brains link stimuli to stimuli using prototypes, personal constructs, stereotypes and scripts) Four social cognition processes: 1. sizing up situations, 2. perceiving other people, 3. evaluating relationships, 4. explaining behavior. 2. implicit personality theory: assumption that personalities traits are clustered so that if an individual exhibits one trait, we assume s/he has the other traits in our cluster. 3. evaluating relationships: self monitoring, the awareness of images of self and the ability to adapt these images to the situation, defining relationships, there are numerous labels that people use to define relationships: friend, cousin, coworker. 4. explaining behavior: attribution theories: how we infer the causes of social behavior (how the average person concludes the why of an episode, asks: (cid:862)wh(cid:455) did i/she/he do that? (cid:863) If other is ingroup, and they do something negative, we attribute it to external qualities.