The idea that impressions are based on a perceiver's disposition to form certain impressions and a weighted average of the target person's characteristics is most consistent with which of the following?

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The idea of a weighted average of characteristics is core to the Information Integration Theory, which suggests that impressions are based on both the perceiver's disposition to form certain impressions and the characteristics of the target person. Correspondent inference theory focuses on making inferences about someone's intentions based on their behavior. Cognitive heuristics refer to mental shortcuts used to make judgments. The actor-observer effect pertains to the phenomenon that people tend to make dispositional attributions for others' behavior while situational attributions for their own behavior.

The Idea That Impressions Are Based on a Perceiver's Disposition