Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Fundamental Attribution Error, Confirmation Bias, Authoritarian Personality
8 Jan 2013
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Social cognition: how people think about people, as well as themselves. Person perception: process of forming impressions of others. Can"t read minds depend on observations to see what type of person they are 5 key aspects: appearance. Physical features are cues used to read people. Multiracial individuals remembered less well than those whose race is same (ingroup) or distinctly different from (outgroup) of perceivers. Racially ambiguous faces recalled less accurately than own-race faces. Memory for biracial faces enhanced if perceivers motivated to see face as part of ingroup: verbal behaviour. How often they give advice and ask questions. How judgmental they are: actions, nonverbal messages. Facial expressions, eye contact, body language, gestures. Use nonverbal cues to determine truth of what others say: situations i. e. crying attributed to happy/sad at wedding/funeral. One bad piece of information can outweigh/undo collection of positive characteristics.
