PSYC 2005 Week 4 Assignment

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When you meet someone new, your brain processes various sources of information including the context in which you meet them, who they are associated with, and how they present themselves. This processing of social information is called social cognition.

In this Assignment, you consider two people you have encountered and examine how you formed your impressions of them.

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Submit a 300- to 500-word paper, in which you:

Select one person in each category below: A person you do not know and whom you probably will not see again (e.g., a cashier at the grocery store) A person you have known for some time and for whom you can remember your first impressions (e.g., a coworker or boss, friend, partner). Do not select someone you have known since your birth or since their birth.

Briefly describe the context of your first interaction with each person. Based on your reading of 5.1 Key Takeaways in Jhangiani and Tarry (2022) (https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/chapter/initial-impression-formation/) , explain how

Readings

Jhangiani, R. & Tarry, H. (2022). Principles of social psychology (1st international H5P ed.). BCcampus. https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/

Chapter 5.1, Initial Impression Formation (https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/chapter/initial-impression-formation/)

Read the section titled: “Key Takeaways” only. Time Estimate: 1 min

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Spielman, R. M., Jenkins, W. J., & Lovett, M. D. (2020), Psychology 2e. Openstax. https://openstax.org/details/books/psychology-2e

Chapter 12.1, “What is Social Psychology?” (https://openstax.org/books/psychology-2e/pages/12-1-what-is-social-psychology)

Time Estimate: 13 min

Reynolds, A. (2021, February 7). Social psychology: Chapter 3 (Social cognition) Part 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=qSOdesMyqkUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSOdesMyqkU) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSOdesMyqkUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch? v=qSOdesMyqkU

you used nonverbal behaviors to form initial perceptions of each person. Based on your reading of Spielman et al. (2020) (https://openstax.org/books/psychology- 2e/pages/12-1-what-is-social-psychology) , explain how you made internal and/or external attributions for each persons behavior. Provide details and explain the implications of making those internal and/or external attributions. Based on the Reynolds (2021) video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSOdesMyqkU) about social cognition, explain how you engaged in automatic thinking or controlled thinking when forming your first impression of each person. Describe what it means to engage in that type of thinking and why you engaged in that type of thinking.

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