PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Fundamental Attribution Error, Interpersonal Attraction, Social Perception

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

The branch of psychology concerned with the way individual"s thoughts, feelings, and others influence behaviours. Social cognition the mental processes that people use to make sense out of their social environment. Person perception the process of forming impressions of others and how you perceive others. Your reactions are determined by your perceptions of others. Your goals determine the amount and kind of information you collect. You evaluate people partly in terms of how you expect them to behave (social norms). o o. Social schemas social schemas are organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people. Self-schema a self-schema is an integrated set of memories, beliefs, and generalizations about one"s behaviour in a given domain. Stereotypes a cluster of characteristics associated with all members of a specific group. Stereotypes are widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group. o.