Recall that Taylor and Fiske (1975) conducted a clever experiment in which a group of participants observed a scripted conversat
ion between two male confederates. Some could see both of the men; others could see the face of only one or the other man. When asked questions about the two confederates (e.g., who had taken the lead in the conversation), participants who had a clear view of both men thought they were equally influential, whereas those who faced one or the other thought that the man whose face they saw was more influential. These results demonstrated that __________.
Answer:The salience of perceptual stimuli is a good description of how we can end up with attribution error.
Explanation:
This means we can make error in how we define others based on what aspect of them we focused more on or what aspect we didn't focus on.
Salience bias or perceptual salience is how our thinking can be bias sometimes as we tend to focus more on prominent or emotionally capturing individuals than those who seems not noticeable eventhough those differences may not be relevant if we were to think more objectively.
People may be speaking about the same topic but we may tend to listen more to the famous actress saying the same thing which is said by our neighbor just because our neighbor isn't prominent .
Principle of closure allows the human mind fill in the gap in incomplete objects to create a complete object. For example, you come across a picture of a square with gaps/dotted lines but you are still able to figure that its a square because you are successfully able to fill in the gaps. This concept only works well when you are familiar to the patterns and objects being shown.
