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Tendency for an individual to feel a diminished sense
diffusion of responsibility of responsibility to assist in an emergency when other
or bystander apathy bystanders are present (not helping when there is
other people present)
The way in which we perceive, evaluate, categorize,
and form judgments about the qualities of other
Social Perception people. Three factors that influence our social
perceptions are first impressions, schemas, and
implicit personality theories
First impression.
negative first impressions are often quickly formed
primacy effect.
and hard to overcome. In contrast, the opposite tends
to be true of positive first impressions
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Generalized assumptions about certain groups or
classes of people
you might have schemas of lawyers as aggressive and
verbal, and of professors as studious and somewhat
Person Schemas distracted.
if our first impression of a new neighbor is that she is
unfriendly, we are likely to evaluate her failure to
comment on our shiny new car as further evidence of
her unfriendliness.
Assumptions people make about how traits usually
occur together in other people's personalities
Implicit Personality
Theories if we meet a person whom we perceive as intelligent,
we may expect that person also to be skillful and
imaginative
One personality trait that is associated with others
such as not honest can be associated with being
mean, rude, and disrespectful
presented two groups of subjects with a list of seven
central traits
traits, describing a hypothetical person. The list for
each group differed on only one central trait
dimension—warm versus cold—yet this difference
influenced significantly the subjects' predictions about
other traits of the hypothetical person.
For example, in a recent study examining the halo
effect, researchers found that thinner men were rated
as more attractive, enthusiastic, and more likely to be
halo effect
successful than heavier men. Heavier men, on the
other hand, were rated as more friendly and
trustworthy than thinner men
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Tendency to believe that good-looking people are
Physical Attractiveness
also funnier, smarter, more likeable than less good-
Stereotype
looking people
Since Stew's first True, The first information we receive about a person
impression of Valerie has the greatest influence on our perception of that
came from a meeting for person. This is called the primacy effect, and it makes
students eligible for an first impressions invaluable.
academic honor society,
he perceives her as
intelligent and CANNOT
understand how she could
be flunking her math class.
If we meet a person who FALSE, implicit personality theory
we perceive as being
warm and friendly, we will
probably expect that
person to also be
generous and to have a
good sense of humor
based on explicit
personality theories
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Theory that we attempt to make sense out of other
people's behavior by attributing it to either
dispositional (internal) causes or situational (external)
causes
For example, suppose you have recently begun
dating someone you like very much, and the two of
you spend a weekend visiting your date's parents.
Attribution Theories Much to your dismay, your friend acts like a different
person—restrained, impersonal, and physically
unresponsive. What has caused the change? If you
attribute it to external factors (that your date is ill at
ease around his or her parents) you are unlikely to feel
that the relationship is seriously threatened. However,
if you attribute the change to an internal cause (that
your partner no longer feels responsive to you), you
may seriously reevaluate the relationship.
theory that the attributions we make about other
people's behavior are influenced by a variety of
conditions, such as the social desirability of that
behavior or whether the behavior results from free
choice
why people do what they do (hard course elective or
required)
The Correspondent
(For instance, if someone donates money to a charity
Inference Theory
at a fundraising event, we might attribute their
behavior to the situation rather than their individual
traits.)
SEVERAL experiments have demonstrated that we are
more likely to make correspondent inferences from
socially undesirable or norm-deviant behaviors than
from socially desirable behaviors.
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Terms in this set (177)
Tendency for an individual to feel a diminished sense
diffusion of responsibility of responsibility to assist in an emergency when other
or bystander apathy bystanders are present (not helping when there is
other people present)
The way in which we perceive, evaluate, categorize,
and form judgments about the qualities of other
Social Perception people. Three factors that influence our social
perceptions are first impressions, schemas, and
implicit personality theories
First impression.
negative first impressions are often quickly formed
primacy effect.
and hard to overcome. In contrast, the opposite tends
to be true of positive first impressions
https://quizlet.com/1107068456/ps-101-final-exam-boston-university-spring23-final-exam-questions-and-answers-verified-answers-actual-exam-2025-… 1/40
,11/12/25, 11:17 AM PS 101 final exam Boston University spring23 Final Exam Questions and Answers (Verified Answers) ||ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TES…
Generalized assumptions about certain groups or
classes of people
you might have schemas of lawyers as aggressive and
verbal, and of professors as studious and somewhat
Person Schemas distracted.
if our first impression of a new neighbor is that she is
unfriendly, we are likely to evaluate her failure to
comment on our shiny new car as further evidence of
her unfriendliness.
Assumptions people make about how traits usually
occur together in other people's personalities
Implicit Personality
Theories if we meet a person whom we perceive as intelligent,
we may expect that person also to be skillful and
imaginative
One personality trait that is associated with others
such as not honest can be associated with being
mean, rude, and disrespectful
presented two groups of subjects with a list of seven
central traits
traits, describing a hypothetical person. The list for
each group differed on only one central trait
dimension—warm versus cold—yet this difference
influenced significantly the subjects' predictions about
other traits of the hypothetical person.
For example, in a recent study examining the halo
effect, researchers found that thinner men were rated
as more attractive, enthusiastic, and more likely to be
halo effect
successful than heavier men. Heavier men, on the
other hand, were rated as more friendly and
trustworthy than thinner men
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Tendency to believe that good-looking people are
Physical Attractiveness
also funnier, smarter, more likeable than less good-
Stereotype
looking people
Since Stew's first True, The first information we receive about a person
impression of Valerie has the greatest influence on our perception of that
came from a meeting for person. This is called the primacy effect, and it makes
students eligible for an first impressions invaluable.
academic honor society,
he perceives her as
intelligent and CANNOT
understand how she could
be flunking her math class.
If we meet a person who FALSE, implicit personality theory
we perceive as being
warm and friendly, we will
probably expect that
person to also be
generous and to have a
good sense of humor
based on explicit
personality theories
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Theory that we attempt to make sense out of other
people's behavior by attributing it to either
dispositional (internal) causes or situational (external)
causes
For example, suppose you have recently begun
dating someone you like very much, and the two of
you spend a weekend visiting your date's parents.
Attribution Theories Much to your dismay, your friend acts like a different
person—restrained, impersonal, and physically
unresponsive. What has caused the change? If you
attribute it to external factors (that your date is ill at
ease around his or her parents) you are unlikely to feel
that the relationship is seriously threatened. However,
if you attribute the change to an internal cause (that
your partner no longer feels responsive to you), you
may seriously reevaluate the relationship.
theory that the attributions we make about other
people's behavior are influenced by a variety of
conditions, such as the social desirability of that
behavior or whether the behavior results from free
choice
why people do what they do (hard course elective or
required)
The Correspondent
(For instance, if someone donates money to a charity
Inference Theory
at a fundraising event, we might attribute their
behavior to the situation rather than their individual
traits.)
SEVERAL experiments have demonstrated that we are
more likely to make correspondent inferences from
socially undesirable or norm-deviant behaviors than
from socially desirable behaviors.
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