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This document provides notes on social cognition, focusing on person perception, stereotypes, and attribution. It covers topics such as physical appearance, body language, saliency detection, and how these factors influence judgments and decisions.
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Social Cognition 7A The role of person perception Person Perception: Refers to the mental processes used to form opinions and first impressions on people Person Perception - Directly: Provided by the person we are judging Indirectly: Through hearing about the p...
Social Cognition 7A The role of person perception Person Perception: Refers to the mental processes used to form opinions and first impressions on people Person Perception - Directly: Provided by the person we are judging Indirectly: Through hearing about the person from someone else Attributes of Person Perception Physical Appearance: Their clothing, appearance and body language Physically attractive people are seen as more interesting, intelligent, warm and independent Body Language: Nonverbal communication Eye movement, Facial expressions and Posture Saliency detection: (saient= super obvious) Anything noticeable from it's surrounding (grabbing attention) Allows for quick judgment but can be wrong Social Categorising(Stereotypes): Grouping people based on shared characteristics Attribution- internal and external attributions ttribution- Conclusions based on the causes of a person's behaviour and the process of A making this evaluation Internal Attribution- Factors such as personality/ ability and mood for explanation of behaviour xternal Attribution- Situational factors such as the environment explaining the individual's E behaviour. Attitudes- the tri-component model of attitudes and its limitations Attitude- an evaluation of something such as a person, object or place Tri Component of attitudes 1. Affective -Emotional response and feelings 2. Behavioural -Outward and observable actions that can be seen 3. Cognitive- Our thoughts and beliefs Limitations on the tri-component T he behavioural component in the circumstances does not or cannot reflect a person's attitudes. S ome suggest that only the affective and cognitive components are needed to create an attitude not needing to act on it. Stereotypes Stereotype- A wildly held belief or genralisation of a group Oversimplifed and inaccurate judgements are created about these certain groups Impacts of stereotypes ecision making- Can create personal parameters for our goals if believing the belief D sterotypically fits the role we will believe the will help us get closer to that goal Interpersonal interactions-Can change how we interact with and how we choose to interact with them.
