PSYCH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jane Elliot, Cognitive Psychology, Attribution Bias
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Lecture 14th 17th october, 2016: social perception. These relationships can be explored in a number of ways: behaviors, cognitions, emotions. Our making sense of the social world around us, and based on that, interact with the situation appropriately. The primacy effect an effect that suggests that the first information learned about someone is remembered most, and it influences us more that later learned information. When we meet somebody, to not only judge them on their first behavior but also have their first behavior carry a lot of weight in our interpretation of them. Social psychologists argue that our first impressions are built either when we first see somebody or talk to them for the first time. Self-fulfilling prophecies an effect that occurs when someone"s expectations change his/her behavior as to increase the probability of the predicted event. The phone conversation study (snyder, tanke, & berscheid, 1977) Who dictates the conversation, how the conversation goes etc.
