PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation, Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Dissonance
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Social psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with the way individual"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by others. Person perception: the process of forming impressions of others. Effects of physical appearance: sways judgements, especially physical attractiveness. Social-schema: organized clusters of ideas about social events and people. Self-schema: integrated sets of memories, beliefs, and generalizations about one"s behaviour in a given domain. Stereotypes: widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group. Subjectivity and bias: illusory correlation occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen. Evolutionary perspective of perception: swayed by physical attractiveness because this was associated with reproduction potential in women, and health in men. Human tendency to automatically generalize others may reflect the primitive need to separate friend from foe. Ingroup: a group one belongs to and identifies with.
