Chapter 4: Interpersonal Perception

the process of making meaning from things we experience in the environment

the process of attending to a stimulation

the process of categorizing information that has been selected for attention

the process of assigining meaning to information that has been selected for attention and organized

generalizations about groups of people that are applied to individual members of those groups

the tendency to emphasize the first impression over later impressions when forming a perception

the tendency to emphasize the most recent impression over earlier impressions when forming a perception

a pre-disposition to perceive only what we want or expect to perceive

unable to take another person's perspective

the tendency to focus heavily on a person's positive attributes when forming a perception

the tendency to focus heavily on a person's negative attributes when forming a perception

an explanation for an observed behavior

the tendency to attribute one's successes to internal causes and one's failures to external causes

the tendency to attribute a range of behaviors to a single characteristic of a person