1What is Social Perception?
The study of how we form impressions of, and make inferences about, other people.
2What is the Halo Effect?
The tendency to assume that an individual who is physically attractive also possesses other positive characteristics (e.g., is smarter, nicer, funnier), and in turn, we treat them better.
3What is Nonverbal Communication?
Communication, intentionally or unintentionally, without words, such as through facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, touch, gaze, body posture, etc.
4What is Attribution Theory?
Theories that investigate the ways people explain the causes of their own and others' behavior.
5What is the Correspondent Inference Theory?
The theory suggesting that we are more likely to make internal attributions when a person's behavior is freely chosen and surprising.
6What is the Two-Step Attribution Model?
A model that explains how people first make automatic internal attributions and then adjust them based on external factors if needed.
7What is the Co-variation Model?
A model that suggests people make internal or external attributions based on consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency information.
8What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
The tendency to make internal attributions for others' behavior and external attributions for our own behavior.
9What are Self-Serving Biases?
The tendency to make internal attributions for positive outcomes and external attributions for negative outcomes to protect self-esteem.
10What is Self-Handicapping?
The act of doing something in advance of a performance that could explain away potential failure, such as staying up late before a big test to give an excuse if the test isn't aced.
11What are Defensive Attributions?
Attributions that allow people to maintain a positive view of themselves and the world, such as blaming victims for their misfortunes.
12What is the Just World Belief?
The belief that good things happen to good people, and bad things happen to bad people, which can lead to victim-blaming.
13What is the Illusory Superiority Effect?
The tendency to believe that one is better than others on various traits, such as being a better driver than the average person.
14What is the Actor-Observer Effect?
The tendency to make dispositional attributions for others' behavior while making situational attributions for our own.
15What is the Self-Serving Bias in Attribution?
The tendency to attribute positive outcomes to our own abilities and efforts and negative outcomes to external factors