PSYB10H3 Chapter 4: Chapter 4
26 Apr 2011
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Social perception: how we come to understand other people. Many studies show that women are better at both decoding and encoding. Culture and implicit personality theories passed from generation to generation in a society: strong implicit personality theory in our culture involves physical attractiveness the language people speak influences the way they think about the world. We tend to believe that people do what they do because of the kind of people they are, not because of situation they are in www. notesolution. com. Culture and the fundamental attribution error www. notesolution. com fundamental attribution error is most likely to occur in north america and other western cultures that emphasize individual freedom and autonomy people in western cultures appear to be more like personality psychologists. The actor/observe difference the actor/observer difference is when we focus more on situational factors when explaining our own behaviour, while focusing on internal factors when explaining the behaviour of others.
