Homework: Social Cognition and Perception
1. Select one person in each category below:
a. A person you do not know and who you probably will not see again (clerk at the grocery store, etc.)
b. A person you have known for some time and for whom you can remember your first impressions (acquaintance, friend, spouse, etc.)
2. Briefly describe each person including his or her specific behavior at your first meeting, the context of your interaction with each person, and your first impression of each person.
3. Explain whether you made external (situational) and/or internal (dispositional) attributions for each person's behavior during that first meeting.
4. Did you engage in automatic thinking or controlled thinking in forming your first impression of each person? Explain. What, if any, schemas or heuristics did you use?
5. With which culture(s) do you identify? According to the information in this week's readings, how does your culture influence your impressions of others? For example, (i) how does your culture influence the content of a particular schema (Aronson, Wilson, & Sommers, 2019, p. 70), (ii) which culturally-specific display rules influence your impressions (Aronson, Wilson, & Sommers, 2019, pp. 889-90), or (iii) when have you engaged in holistic or analytic thinking as your culture would predict (Aronson, Wilson, & Sommers, 2019, p. 110)?
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.