Cognitive Processes in Social Perception Quiz

Perception involves interpreting and understanding social cues from others.

Social categorization involves categorizing people into groups based on common characteristics.

Primacy effect is the tendency to rely on the first piece of information encountered when making judgments in social perception.

Recency effect involves relying on the most recent information when making judgments.

The Halo effect is the tendency to attribute positive characteristics to liked individuals and negative characteristics to disliked individuals.

Attribution involves making inferences about the causes of one's own and others' behavior.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to favor information that confirms pre-existing beliefs or values.

Conformity involves changing attitudes or behaviors to align with the social norms or expectations of a group.

In-group bias involves favorably viewing one's own group and perceiving members of other groups as less favorable.

Primacy effect is the mental shortcut of giving more importance to the initial information encountered.

Fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overemphasize dispositional factors and underestimate situational factors when explaining others' behavior.

Heuristics involve the mental shortcuts and generalizations used to make social judgments quickly.

False consensus effect is the tendency to believe others share our beliefs and behaviors more than they actually do.

Self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute success to internal factors and failure to external factors in social perception.

Confirmation bias involves actively seeking and interpreting information consistent with existing beliefs.

Out-group homogeneity is the tendency to perceive members of a group as more similar than they really are in social perception.