Reference no: EM133681198

Assignment:

Select one person in each category below:

• A person you do not know and whom you probably will not see again (e.g., a clerk 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, spouse). Do not select someone you have known since your birth or since their birth.
• Briefly describe each person, including their specific behavior at your first meeting, the context of your interaction with each person, and your first impression of each person.
• Explain the attributions you made for the person's behavior and identify whether the attributions you made were internal, external, or both.
• Provide details and explain the implications of making that external or internal attribution.
• Explain how you engaged in automatic thinking or controlled thinking in 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. Also, describe which schemas or heuristics you might have used or, if you did not, why not.

Describe the culture(s) with which you identify. Then analyze how your culture influences your impressions of others by responding to one of the following:

• Select a schema and explain how your culture influences the content of that particular schema.
• Describe which culturally specific display rule(s) influence your impressions.
• Explain why your culture would lead you to engage in either holistic or analytic thinking, and describe when and how you have engaged in holistic or analytic thinking as your culture would predict.