[MGCR 222] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (25 pages long)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 222
• Professor: Alfred Jaeger

Document Summary

Social perception and social identity: selective perception e. g. eye witness testimony insinuated by the prosecution. Needs, goals, emotions, stereotypes, simplify vast amount of stimuli: social perception: the process of combining, integrating, and interpreting information about others to gain an accurate understanding of them. Attribution: the pro(cid:272)ess through (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals atte(cid:373)pt to deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)e the (cid:272)auses (cid:271)ehi(cid:374)d others" behavior: causal attribution: internal and external. Consensus, consistency, distinctiveness are the basis for people to believe if actions are caused by internal or external factor. Consensus: if most people behave in the same way. Consistency: if the person acts this way other times; high consistency---internal. Distinctiveness: if the person behaves in the same manner in other contexts; low distinctiveness: internal: perceptual biases: predispositions that people have to misperceive others in various ways. Halo effect: the tendency for our overall impressions of others to affect objective evaluations of their specific traits.