PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Wield, Operant Conditioning, Social Neuroscience
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Person perception: forming impressions of others: asch demonstrated importance of central traits, person perception: the process of forming impressions of others, biases and fallacies occur in person perception. Cognitive schemas: schemas are cognitive structures that guide information processing. 747: people"s perceptions of others can be distorted by a variety of factors, including physical appearance. People tend to attribute desirable characteristics such as intelligence, competence, warmth, and friendliness, to those who are good-looking: baby-faced people are viewed as honest. Perceptions of people are also influence by their style of nonverbal expressiveness. People use social schemas to categorize others into types. Stereotypes are widely held social schemas that lead people to expect that others will have certain characteristics because of their membership in a specific group: gender, age, ethnic, and occupational stereotypes are common. The human tendency to automatically categorize others may reflect the primitive need to quickly separate friend from foe.
