Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Fundamental Attribution Error, Ultimate Attribution Error, Authoritarian Personality

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Everyone asks and answers why questions about the people around then. As people interact with others, they constantly engage in person perception, the process of forming impressions of others. Because you can"t read other people"s minds, you are dependent on observations of others to determine what they are like. In forming impressions on others, people rely on 5 key sources: appearance. Physical features such as height, weight, skin color, race, and hair color are some of the cues used to read other people. Where memory is concerneed, multiracial individuals are remembered less well than those whose race is the same as (ingroup) or distinctively different from (outgroup) that of perceivers: verbal behaviour. People form impressions based on what and how much others self- disclose, how often they give advice and ask questions, and how judgemental they are: actions. Because people don"t always tell the truth, you have to rely on their behaviour to provide insights about them.