HPED 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Relate, Fundamental Attribution Error, Information Overload
6 Feb 2020
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Perception an active process where you become aware of what"s around you. Perception model: everyone uses shortcuts that may mislead you, memory influence by preconceptions, stereotypes may distort perception. Impression: collection of perceptions, used to interpret others behaviours. Primacy-recency: primacy effect what happens first exerts most influence on overall impression, first impressions are the most important, recency effect what happens most recently exerts most influence on overall impression. How we describe others: halo effect inferring many positive qualities from one positive quality, reverse halo effect inferring many negative qualities from one negative quality. Attribution theory: the process by which we try to explain the motivation for a person"s behaviour. Major attribution problems: attribution reasons we use to explain behaviour, self-serving bias, fundamental attribution error. Increasing accuracy in perception: analyze perceptions, check perceptions, reduce uncertainty, be culturally sensitive. Remembering: being able to retain information and recall when needed. Identify central ideas: summarize message, repeat information, construct mnemonics, take notes.
