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Social Psychology- Chapter 4 terms

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The study of how we form impressions of and makes inferences about other people
Social Perception
The way in which people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without words; nonverbal cues include facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, body position and movement, the use of touch
Nonverbal Communication
To express or emit nonverbal behavior
Encode
To interpret the meaning of the nonverbal behavior other people express
Decode
Facial expressions in which one part of the face registers one emotion while another part of the face registers a different emotion
Affect Blends
Culturally determined rules about whih nonverbal behaviors are appropriate to display
Display Rules
Nonverbal gestures that have well-understood definitions within a given culture
Emblems
Drawing meaningful conclusions about another person's personality or skills based on an extremely brief sample of behavior
Thin-Slicing
When it comes to forming impressions, the first traits we perceive in others influence how we view information that we learn about them later
Primacy Effect
The tendency to stick with an initial judgement even in the face of new information that should prompt us to reconsider
Belief Perseverance
A description of the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people's behavior
Attribution Theory
The inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about the person, such as attitude, character, or personality
Internal Attribution
The inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about the situation he or she is in; the assumption is that most people would respond the same way in that situation
External Attribution
A theory that states that to form an attribution about what caused a person's behavior, we systematically note the pattern between the presence or the absence of possible casual factors and whether the behvior occurs
Covariation Model
Information about the extent to which other people behave the same way toward the same stimulus as the actor does
Consensus Information
Information about the extent to which one particular actor behaves in the same way to different stimuli
Distinctiveness Information
Information about the extent to which the behavior between one actor and one stimulus is the same across time and circumstances
Consistency Information
The tendency to overestimate the extent to which other people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors
Fundamental Attribution Error
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