lec5 stuffs
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Automacity of attricutions
How automatic is an attribution? -
Very automatic
Attributions are pattern matching - Types of social information how we make predictions about people
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1. Behaviour
2. Context
3. Schemas - Behavioural input (Two types)
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1. Verbal behaviour
2. Nonverbal behaviour - Verbal behaviour
- What we say
- Nonverbal behaviour and two types
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1. Emblems - Gestures that have well-understood meaning within a culture
2. Thin slices - an approach within psychology focused on the attributional power of brief exposure to others
Making an inference about someone based of brief exposure to them
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Thin slices studies
- Behavioural correlates of SES:
- Categorization of ambiguous groups: -
- 2 people take a quiz; results that naïve observers accurately detected participants income, mothers’ education and subjective SES;
- Can you categorize person from their face alone? Yes! - Context
- It matters, provides additional input and can completely change attribution
- Schemas
- What you expect is what you get
- Attribution
- An explanation for an observed behaviour of a social object
- Mind perception
- The process by which people attribute humanlike mental states to various animate and inanimate objects, including other people