PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Group Cohesiveness, Operant Conditioning, Victim Blaming
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Social psychology- the branch of psych concerned with the way individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by others. There are 6 topics of social psychology : personal perception: forming impressing of others. Person perception- the process of forming impressions of others. Physical attractiveness- a person"s appearance influences personal perceptions people tend to assign personality characteristics to those who are good looking vs. those who are deemed less attractive. Good looking people: the beautiful = the good, obtain better jobs, baby-faced = honesty, trust. Observers are quick to draw conclusions of people based on their style of nonverbal. Social perception"s biases were adaptive in humans" ancestral environment. Attributions- are inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others" behaviour, and their own behaviour people make attributions because they have a strong need to understand their own experiences make sense of their own behaviour. Internal attributions- ascribe the causes of behaviour to personal dispositions, traits, abilities and feelings.
