Impression Formation
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Three fundamental principles of perception:

          Selection

          organisation

          inference

all affect perception of people but

           people behave objects do not

           people interact with other people - one person's behaviour can influence            another's

           people perceive and experience but objects cannot - each person's perception of one other is at least partly a product of the other's perception of them

Often the first thing we notice about someone is some aspect of their appearance (e.g. clothes, hair) and to this extent we are treating them as things - first step towards stereotyping.

Other Notes in this Category

1. Attitudes
2. Attitudes and Behaviour
3. Attribution
4. Conformity
5. Crowds and Territoriality
6. Goffman - Symbolic Interactionist
7. Impression Formation
8. Inference Model
9. Intuition model
10. Is there a conformity personality?
11. Obedience
12. Persuasion
13. Prejudice
14. Self Concept
15. Self-attribution processes
16. Social Influence
17. Stereotypes and Stereotyping
18. The Primacy-Recency effect
19. Zimbardo

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