<P> Social perception (or person perception) is the study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people as sovereign personalities . People learn about others' feelings and emotions by picking up information they gather from physical appearance, verbal, and nonverbal communication . Facial expressions, tone of voice, hand gestures, and body position or movement are just a few examples of ways people communicate without words . A real - world example of social perception would be understanding that others disagree with what one said when one sees them roll their eyes . There are four main components of social perception: observation, attribution, integration, and confirmation . </P> <P> Observations serve as the raw data of social perception--an interplay of three sources: persons, situations, and behavior . These sources are used as evidence in supporting a person's impression or inference about others . Another important factor to understand when talking about social perception is attribution . Attribution is expressing an individual's personality as the source or cause of their behavior during an event or situation . In order to fully understand the impact of personal or situational attributions, social perceivers must integrate all available information into a unified impression . To finally confirm these impressions, people try to understand, find, and create information in the form of various biases . Most importantly, social perception is shaped by an individual's current motivations, emotions, and cognitive load capacity . Cognitive load is the complete amount of mental effort utilized in the working memory . All of this combined determines how people attribute certain traits and how those traits are interpreted . </P>

Which term describes evaluating others from one’s own cultural point of view