Social Perception

These flashcards cover key concepts related to social perception, nonverbal behavior, attribution theories, and biases in understanding others.

Social Perception

The process through which we seek to understand other people.

Nonverbal Behavior

Communication without words that is intentional or unintentional, including facial expressions, body language, eye contact, and tone of voice.

Cultural Differences

Variations in nonverbal behavior and emotion expression based on cultural backgrounds.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overestimate personal factors and underestimate situational factors when explaining others' behavior.

Actor-Observer Bias

The tendency to attribute own actions to situational factors while attributing others' actions to personal factors.

Mind Perception

Recognizing that others have agency and experience.

Impression Formation

The process of shaping perceptions of others based on initial observations.

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to seek, interpret, and create information that confirms existing beliefs.

Primacy Effect

The tendency for the first traits perceived to bias impression formation.

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

A process where expectations about a person lead that person to behave in ways that confirm those expectations.

Attribution Theories

The theories that describe how individuals explain the causes of behavior.

Kelley's Covariation Theory

A theory stating that people make attributions based on consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency.

Display Rules

Culture-specific rules that dictate appropriate emotional expressions.

Anthropomorphism

Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman agents.

Dehumanization

Representing human agents as nonhuman to justify inhumane treatment.

Implicit Personality Theories

Schemas that help individuals to group various personality traits together.

Stevens,2005, explananations of cooperative behaviour in humans and animals?

-mutualism

-kin selection

What does the graph by Burnstein et all, 1994 show?

Interactions between health, kinship and willingness to help.

Jane Pilivan’s bystander calculus model of helping?

1. Physiological arousal

2. Labelling the arousal

3. Evaluating the consequences

Steps in Latane and Darley cognitive model?

1. Attend to the event

2. Is it an emergency

3. Assume responsibility

4. Decide what can be done

5. Help?