PSYC 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Perception, Physical Attractiveness
15 Apr 2015
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Social psychology: branch of psychology concerned w/ the way individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by others. Person perception: forming impressions of others o o. Person perception: the process of forming impressions of others. Tend to be seen as more sociable, friendly, posed, warm, Attractive people tend to secure better jobs and earn higher. People view those w/ baby-faced features as more honest, Schemas: cognitive structures that guide information processing- use them to organize the world around them social events and people process of person perception. Social schemas: organized clusters of ideas about categories of. People place one another in categories, which influence the. Cognitive process that is automatic and saves on the time and. When schemas are made active by priming, they can. Interviewers in an experiment used an immediate style with white. Illusory correlation: occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association b/w social traits than they have actually seen stereotypes.
