PSYC 2700H Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Infor, Fundamental Attribution Error, Victim Blaming
29 Mar 2017
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Social perception (the study of how we form impressions of other ppl and make inferences about them) We automatically mimic others facial expressions (women especially do it) Mirror neurons (respond when we perform an action and when we see someone else perform the same action) Nonverbal cues help ppl express emotions, their attitudes and their personality. Believed that primary emotions by face are universal (all ppl encode/express these emotions, and all ppl can decode/interpret them) 6 major emotions: anger, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness. 6 added emotions: contempt, pride, embarrassment, anxiety, shame, guilt. A type of schema ppl use to group various kinds of personality trait together. Strongly tied to culture, passed from generation to generation, 1s culture implicit personality theory may be different from another"s culture. Study of how we infer the causes of our own & others beh. When trying to decide why ppl behave as they do we can make 2 attributins o.
