SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Latanya Sweeney, Affective Forecasting, Dispositional Attribution
7 Dec 2016
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P ers on s chemas and g roup s tereotypes. B ias and e rror in a ttribution. S ocial perception refers to cons tructing an unders tanding of the s ocial world from the data we g et through our senses; the processes by which we form impressions of other people"s traits and pers onalities . Attribution refers to the process of inferring the causes of a person"s behaviour e. g. motives, traits , and s ituational pres s ures. We used schemas: a well-organiz ed s tructure of cognitions about s ome s ocial entity s uch as a person, group, role, or event. Schemas help us to categorize e. g. we associate a set of behaviours with an aggressive" person". Prototypes: abstractions that represent the typical of a class or group; i. e. wealthy, cultured, rough neck, etc. S chemas help us res pond appropriately to s ituations . S chemas make this pos s ible by:
