Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: In-Group Favoritism, Confirmation Bias, Social Perception

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

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Person perception the process of forming impressions of others (automatic process) In forming impressions of others, people rely on cues such as appearance, actions, and verbal and nonverbal messages, as well as the nature of the situation. Presence of a trait that is perceived to be ive can have more influence on forming impressions: so bad impressions tend to be stronger than good ones than several +ive qualities. Systematic judgments: require more controlled processing and tends to occur when forming impressions of others that can affect our happiness or welfare. Attributions in chpt 6, we talked about attributions having 3 key dimensions: internal vs external: stable vs unstable, controllable vs uncontrollable events. There are two types: for the attributions of other people, we focus on internal vs external inferences that people draw about the causes of their own behavior, others(cid:495) behavior, and.