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Chapter 5
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- 1Four impulses that push people togetherImpulse to receive stimulation, express experiences, assert oneself, to enhance enjoyment of activities
- 2Selective perceptionSeeing only what we want to see
- 3Perceptions are...Structured by cultural conditioning, education, experiences, early experiences
- 4Attribution theoryTheory addressing whether an action is due to internal or external causes
- 5Fundamental attribution errorWe tend to overestimate character factors in others and underestimate situational factors. For ourselves and people we care deeply about, the reverse is true(self-serving bias)
- 6Implicit personality theoryMental catalog of clustered traits, perceiving one trait, activates the rest in the cluster.
- 7Gestalt impression formationWe organize individual traits to form a whole and then make assessments on for overall perception. This perception influences individual traits.
- 8StereotypingCan do it inductively (small action, big trait) or deductively (big trait, important action)
- 9Spiral of reciprocal perspectivesStart with a false definition of someone, act toward them on that fallacy, they start to respond, we have created the behavior within them
- 10Pollyanna principleOptimistic bias in people, rate self above average, overestimate importance of pleasant events, underestimate unpleasant events
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