Social Perception
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Snooping | discovering personality as it is portrayed in observable behaviors, "seeping and leaking" |
| Walking is an indicator of? | extraversion |
| Braking is an indicator of ? | neuroticism |
| Shaking is an indicator of? | extraversion |
| Social Perception | process by which we seek to know and understand people |
| Nonverbal Communication | relies on the unspoken language of facial expressions, eye contact, and body language |
| Facial Expressions | expression of emotions |
| Basic emotions | anger, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, and disgust |
| Microexpressions | fleeting facial expressions lasting only a tenth of a second |
| Gaze | holding eye contact, shows interest, positive |
| Stare | holding eye contact but not responding to cues, negative |
| Avoidance of eye contact | when you don't like someone, negative |
| Body language | posture, position, and movement |
| Attribution | the process thru which we seek to understand the causes of others' behavior, helps to predict behavior, situational and dispostional |
| Fundamental Attribution Error | tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional attributions, even in the presence of clear situational cause |
| Actor-observer Effect | tendency to attribute our own behavior to situation factors |
| Impression Formation | refers to process thru which we form impressions of others |
| First impressions | exert strong and lasting effects |
| Self-enhancing | appearance, self-handicapping |
| Other-enhancing | flattery, agreement |
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