- Describe the kinds of information that are important in forming
impressions of other people.
- Discuss some processes that allow us to move very quickly from
observations of behavior to inferences of enduring traits.
- Explain how motivation and affect can influence person perception.
- Identify the assumptions and basic principles of attribution theory,
and be able to distinguish between the Jones and Davis and Kelley
models.
- Describe the fundamental attribution error, the actor-observer effect,
the false consensus effect, and the self-serving attributional bias, and
explain why they occur.
- Discuss how accurate people are in drawing inferences about the
personality and the emotional states of others.
- Explain the nonverbal cues we use in drawing inferences about others,
and indicate which of these cues are most important in detecting when
others are lying.
