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AP Psychology 1.4 Social Psychology. The class is forming impressions based on what?
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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the new kid in
- 00:06
school which means instant relief for all geekdom.. congrats guys.. All right, [Students peaking around lockers]
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Janine's the new girl in school the other kids in class make fun of her
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because she has an odd accent and dresses in mismatched clothing the class
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is forming impressions based on what and here are your potential answers.. alright
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Janine's clearly a future shmoop employee.. Okay well so the kids are [School students in a hallway]
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forming impressions about Janine based on an odd accent and mismatch clothing
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but why what's the explanation is it A normalizing well no because the process
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of normalization refers to an instance in which certain ideas or actions become
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seen as normal kind of like how boy bands began normalized in the 90s to the [People at a boy band concert]
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point that people actually thought having spiked, bleached blonde hair and
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wearing colorful leather trench coats was even remotely normal. B doesn't work [A blonde boy band wearing leather trench coats]
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because an attribution bias refers to the ways in which we incorrectly explain
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our own and other people's behaviors like if the students explained Janine's
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mismatch clothing by saying she has poor fashion sense when in reality they were [School girls making fun of Janine's fashion sense]
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the unfashionable ones for failing to recognize the striking contrast between
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leopard print and rainbow stripes. It's not C either as nothing as being
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influenced here except maybe Janine to wear more matching clothing though who [Woman wearing a blue scarf and a blue sweater]
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wants to live in a world without mismatched clothing it would make people
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watching so much less enjoyable and while some of the assumptions made about
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Jeanine could serve to characterize her in the eyes of her peers that is to aid
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them in forming an idea about her general character that's not what we're
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talking about. What we're talking about is person perception which refers to the
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snap judgments made when we are forming an impression of a new person, these
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quick judgments are based on basic behavior and appearance and are also [A woman judge in a court room]
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influenced by our previous experiences So D is the answer we want, just try to
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remember that your initial person perceptions can be wrong ... At first glance
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Sheldon appears to be a socially awkward nerd but when you get to know him well [Sheldon stood in a library]
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ok... they're not always wrong who wants to
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live in a world without mismatched clothing....
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