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Are you a penguin or a polar bear?

Are you a penguin or a polar bear?. Unit 12 Social Psychology. Social “Thinking” . Stereotype: generalization about a group’s characteristics, does not account for individuality First impressions…what do you judge first? Appearance or personality?

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Are you a penguin or a polar bear?

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  1. Are you a penguin or a polar bear? Unit 12 Social Psychology

  2. Social “Thinking” • Stereotype: generalization about a group’s characteristics, does not account for individuality • First impressions…what do you judge first? • Appearance or personality? • Attribution Theory: people want to find the reason for behavior to better explain/justify it • Internal: traits • External: society, peer-pressure • Emotional state: “bad day” • Controllable/uncontrollable: for example weather Person Perception Attribution

  3. Errors in Perception • Fundamental attribution error: • When we assume that people CHOSE to act they way they did when in fact they may have had limited choice. • False consensus error: • When we assume that everyone else interprets things the way we do. • Positive illusions: • When we see only the “rosy” or positive things and ignore the negative things. • Self-serving bias: • When we take credit for the things that go “right” or we do well, but fail to take responsibility for the things that don’t go right or that we do wrong.

  4. Cognitive Dissonance:When our thoughts and actions don’t align

  5. Self-Perception Theory Daryl Bem Behaviors cause attitudes…your behaviors give you insight to your feelings

  6. The Art of Persuasion Elaboration Likelihood Model • Central Route: Direct logical argument • Peripheral Route: Appeals to emotions, desires, attraction • Does your “introvertedness/entrovertedness” play a role in which route is most effective with you? • What is your evidence?

  7. Altruism…Does it exist in society ANYWHERE? • Charity? • Random acts of kindness • Anonymous acts Egoism…Does it exist in society EVERYWHERE? • Is there an action that we do without the intend to some degree raise our self-esteem? • Is this concept the driving force behind our successful people in this world?

  8. Empathy… The feeling of oneness with another emotionally.

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