PSYC 3080 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Stereotype

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3080
• Professor: Yarming

Document Summary

Basic biases in person perception: primacy effect, the tendency for a perceiver to rely on early cues or first impressions, has a lasting impact, the workers who can favorably impress their boss in the first few days are at an advantage due to primacy, recency effect, when people give undue weight to the cues that they encountered most recently o, eg. All three are employees who work in separate firms, each absent from work today, and a manager must develop an attribution about the cause to deicide which action is warranted (a) roshani: is absent a lot, her coworkers are seldom absent and she was absent a lot in her previous job (b) mika: absent a lot, her co workers are also absent a lot, but she was almost never absent in her previous job (c) sam: seldom absent, her coworkers are seldom absent, and she was seldom absent in her previous job.