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Integrative and dynamic impression formation process.
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Integrative and dynamic impression formation process In this essay, our impressions of other people will be discussed, as it is a cognitive process. It is both a dynamic process and an integrative process. Dynamic is defined as "We constantly revise and modify our impressions as we receive new information about the person". Moreover, the meaning for impressions as an integrative cognitive process is "we interpret each new piece of information about someone according to what we believe we already know". These two definitions are contrary but consistent with each other. Firstly, how the impression forming will be presented. Weber (1992) suggested that the impression formation was a cognitive process. It based on individual's social concepts and the acquiring of social information. People gained social concepts from their experience, social culture, language, and etc. Therefore, a person would sort other people he encountered into different group by age, gender, race, and even...
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