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Psych lecture 4
Midterm
10 cards·by kassandra_760
Attribution Theory
A group of theories that describe how people explain the causes of behavior.
Base-Rate Fallacy
The finding that people are relatively insensitive to consensus information presented in
the form of numerical base rates
Central Traits
Traits that exert a powerful influence on overall impressions
Belief Preserverance
The tendency to maintain beliefs even after they have been discredited
False-Consensus Effect
The tendency for people to overestimate the extent to which others share their opinions,
attributes, and behaviors
Covariation Principle
A principle of attribution theory that holds that people attribute behaviors to factors that
are present when a behavior occurs and are abse
Fundamental Attribution Error
The tendency to focus on the role of personal causes and underestimate the impact of
situations on other people's behavior.
Primacy Effect
The tendency for information presented early in a seqence to have more impact on impressions
than information presented later.
Nonverbal Behavior
Behavior that reveals a person's feelings without words, through facial expressions, body
language, and vocal cues
Social Perception
A general term for the processes by which people come to understand one another