Psych 105: Chapters 13-14

Person perception is...

• how good a person's eyesight is

• how you perceive yourself

• forming impressions of others

Choose the BEST answer: People who are attractive are seen as being more...

• sociable, kind, and honest

• mean, hateful, and rude

• timid, quiet, and prude

Cognitive schemas/social schemas are...

• processes that lead people to expect others to have certain characteristics because of membership

• organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people

• integrated sets of memories, beliefs, and generalizations about one's behaviour in a given domain

Stereotypes are...

• processes that lead people to expect others to have certain characteristics because of membership

• organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people

• integrated sets of memories, beliefs, and generalizations about one's behaviour in a given domain

Self-schemas are...

• processes that lead people to expect others to have certain characteristics because of membership

• organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people

• integrated sets of memories, beliefs, and generalizations about one's behaviour in a given domain

____________ occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more conformations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen.

• Self-serving bias

• Actor-observer bias

• Attribution

• Illusory correlation

_____ is a group that one belongs to and identifies with

• Ingroup

• Outgroup

_____ is a group that one does not belong to or identifies with

• Ingroup

• Outgroup

Prejudice is a negative attitude towards someone based on their membership in a group. Discrimination is...

• a positive attitude towards a person based on their membership to a group

• an action

Attributions are...

• organized clusters if ideas about categories of social events and people

• widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristic because of their membership to a group

• inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others' behaviour and their own behaviour.