Social 5 Flashcards

Flashcards covering vocabulary terms related to social perception discussed in the lecture.

First Impressions

The science of how people form first impressions of others.

Cues for First Impressions

Visual cues such as facial features, demographic features, and behaviors that influence first impressions.

Attribution

An explanation of another person's behavior.

Attribution Theory

A theory that explains how we come to judgments about others' behavior based on situational and person factors.

Consensus

The extent to which other people behave in the same way as the person we are observing.

Consistency

The extent to which a person behaves the same way on different occasions in the same situation.

Distinctiveness

The extent to which a person behaves the same way in different situations.

Correspondence Bias

An error in which people infer dispositional causes of situationally induced behaviors.

Stereotype

A belief about the characteristics of a person based on their membership in one or more groups.

Stereotype Maintenance

Occurs when people make attributions in a way that avoids updating a stereotype.

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

When our expectations about the world create the reality of our world by influencing our own or others' behavior.

Face Name Effect

The idea that people look a bit like their name due to self-fulfilling prophecies and societal expectations.