PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Illusory Correlation, Confirmation Bias, Classical Conditioning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

1/6 canadians report being the victim of racism. Racism commonly targeted most against blacks, ethnic discriminations against jews. Visible minority numbers are rising because of immigration. Social psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with the way individual"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviour is influenced by others. Broad topics include person perception, attribution processes, interpersonal attraction, attitudes, conformity and obedience, behaviour in groups. Person perception: the process of forming impressions of others. Central traits are particularly important pieces of information we use to form an impression as identified by soloman asch. Starting at a young age we ascribe desirable characteristics to attractive people. Attractive people grab and hold our attention quicker and longer. This is likely the result of media representations, since real data does not support. Attractive people are also judged as more competent. Baby-faced people are seen as more honest, submissive, and warm. Impressions made based on facial appearance correlated well with the real-life success of politicians and ceos.