Professor Clark
SC 155
12 March 2014
The Lunch Date When I first viewed The Lunch Date , I formed many different impressions of the lady and what was going on. When the lady came walking into the station, my impression formation theory of her was that she was a bit more of the higher class, due to her physical qualities and elegant attire. She had an uncomfortable perhaps uneasy expression the whole time she was making herself aware of her environment. I felt as if she had not been in an environment like that before and was her selective perception had her very attentive. The primacy effect of my observation of the lady, due to her behavior and attitude towards people created a hornet effect of my standpoint theory. My interpersonal perception of the lady was that she was rude, perhaps she thought she was better than everyone else. Due to thin slicing based on my primacy effect of her attitude and behavior at the beginning of the clip caused me to be judgmental and stereotype when forming my implicit personality theory. I tried to mindful in seeking additional information through passive perception to confirm my impressions of the lady. This is an example of indirect perception checking.
I felt that the ladies attitude toward the man she ran into was very rude due to the fact that she created a barrier in their communication by blaming him for the reason she was going to miss her train. She was running late for the train and her only focus was the train, also known as selective attention that she was not paying attention to where she was going. My interpersonal perception was based on the way she treated the man after he tried to help our gather her belongings after they drop on the ground. I have a self-severing bias to the way I would have acted in a more positive manner than hers. It was once that she missed the train that her attitude completely changed as you could see her hopes become her fears as she was trying to make