PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Cognitive Dissonance, Elaboration Likelihood Model, Classical Conditioning
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Stats canada 1332 hate crimes were reported to police in 2011 and most were result of ethnic and racial differences & religion and sexual orientation: ethnic minorities are increasing in canada. Social psychology (cid:271)ra(cid:374)(cid:272)h of ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374)ed (cid:449)ith the (cid:449)a(cid:455) a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual(cid:859)s thoughts, feeli(cid:374)gs a(cid:374)d behaviours are influenced by others. How people are affected by the presence of others. Focuses on 7 broad topics: perception, attribution. Interpersonal attraction: attitudes, conformity and obedience behaviour in groups, social neuroscience. Our impressions of others are affected by variety of factors ex. physical appearance. We are automatically drawn to figure out others and get an impression of them first impression. We are often faced with updating impressions we already have as we get to know people better. Solomon asch (1946: demonstrated importance of central traits on the impressions we form of others. As we interact with people, we are constantly engaged in person perception process of forming perception of others.
