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| process of experiencing the world around you and making sense out of what you experience |
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| process of observing and interpreting the behaviors of other people |
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| occurs when we are motivated to pay attention to particular information |
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occurs because our senses are in operation
information noticed without any real notice
ex, weather is cold, not because you decide |
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| occurs when we direct our attention to specific etails and consequently ignore other pieces of information |
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where you attend to information that confirms what you already believe
you find all the evidence you need to support your expectations
wanting to believe something, and believing it whether its true or not |
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Cognitively complex
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Cognitively Simple |
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Complex, do not categorize others easily or quickly
Simple, people have very few categories for understanding others |
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determining the cause of events
what (or which) causes what?
how we make sense out of stimuli by grouping and dividing information into time segments with beginning and ends |
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| filling in missing information based on our assumptions |
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| Tendency to use a small set of traits to make inferences about other traits that person may possess |
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| Implicit personality theory |
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explains how we each have preconceived ideas about personality traits that come as a package deal
once we learn a few details about someone, we infer other traits that are clustered with the traits we observe |
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| suggests that in trying to understand the world around us, we attempt to explain people's motives for their actions |
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Attribution making includes two processes
determining the cause of someone's behavior
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making a judgment about the behavior based on the cause |
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the simplest explanation is usually the correct one
oversimplifying
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mental shortcuts
can prevent us from correctly interpreting information |
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giving positive attributes to someone we like without knowing for sure these qualities are true
make positive explanations for even the worst behaviors |
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| fundamental attribution error |
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the tendency to underestimate the situational causes for others' negative behavior and instead blame the person
getting upset with someone before knowing for certain that your reason is true |
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occurs when we believe that when things go right it is due to things within our control, rather than partially caused by others or by the circumstance
also when things go wrong, we think it's out of our control |
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occurs when we remember things we want to remember and forget or repress things we don't want to remember
unpleasant or uncomfortable or unimportant
a.k.a. egocentric memory |
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Selection
organization
interpretation
remembering |
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Percetion checking
Indirect
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Indirect- involves seeking additional information through ovservation to either confirm or refute your interpretations
Direct- asking straight out if your interpretations are correct |
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