What's the perception process
Selection- zooming in on one stimulus
Organization- classifying stimulus
Interpretation- assigning meaning
perceptual schema
Mental framework applied to organize info
Primary effect
emphasizing first impressions over last
Recency effect
emphasizing last impressions over first impressions
Attribution
An explanation for an observed behavior.
Egocentric
A state of inability to take another person's perspective.
Fundamental attribution error
The tendency to attribute others' behaviors to internal rather than external causes.
Interpersonal perception
The process of making meaning from the people in our environment and our relationships with them
Interpretation
The process of assigning meaning to information that has been selected for attention and organized.
Negativity bias
The tendency to focus heavily on a person's negative attributes when forming a perception.
Organization
The process of categorizing information that has been selected for attention.
Overattribution:
The tendency to attribute a range of behaviors to a single characteristic of a person
Perception
The ongoing process of making meaning from the things we experience in the environment.
Perceptual set
A predisposition to perceive only what we want or expect to perceive.
Positivity bias
The tendency to focus heavily on a person's positive attributes when forming a perception.
Selection
The process of attending to a stimulus
Self-serving bias
The tendency to attribute one's successes to internal causes and one's failures to external causes.
Stereotypes
Generalizations about groups of people that are applied to individual members of those groups.
Locus
where the cause of behavior is located