Social Cognition and Perception
Social Cognition and Perception
To prepare:
- Review Chapters 3 and 4 of the course text, Social Psychology.
- Review the article, “Person Perception” found in this week’s Learning Resources.
- Watch the video on selective attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
The Assignment (3-4 pages):
- Select one person in eachcategory below:
- A person you do not know and who you probably will not see again (clerk at the grocery store, etc.)
- A person you have known for some time and for whom you can remember your first impressions (acquaintance, friend, spouse, etc.)
- Briefly describe each person including his or her specific behavior at your first meeting, the context of your interaction with each person, and your first impression of each person.
- Explain whether you made external (situational) and/or internal (dispositional) attributions for each person’s behavior during that first meeting.
- Did you engage in automatic thinking or controlled thinking in forming your first impression of each person? Explain. What, if any, schemas or heuristics did you use?
- With which culture(s) do you identify? According to the information in this week’s readings, how does your culture influence your impressions of others? For example, how does your culture influence your impressions of others? For example, (a) how does your culture influence the content of a particular schema (Aronson, Wilson, & Sommers, 2016, p. 70), (b) which culturally-specific display rules influence your impressions (Aronson, Wilson, & Sommers, 2016, pp. 90-91), or (c) when have you engaged in holistic or analytic thinking as your culture would predict (Aronson, Wilson, & Sommers, 2016, p. 110)?
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psychology perception Social Cognition
Answer preview…………..
People usually have different opinion and impression about other individuals on what is known as person perception. People also engage in the process of perception and judgment where they make sense about the social world which is known as social cognition. Through social psychology, it enables people to process information and judge other people either positively or negatively. Development of perception about other individuals require personal observation about them or getting second-hand information. Through social psychology, it enables an individual to perceive other leading to judgments of traits and dispositions. We usually come across many people who are familiar or strangers to us and through relating with them people typically develop a different perception of them based on their social cognition………..
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