PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Comparison Theory, Terror Management Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Christopher Miners

Document Summary

How group behaviour affects the way you think, feel, or behave. How the way that you think about yourself affects your actions, and how other people affect the way you think about yourself. How our evaluations of self and others form, change, and affect our behaviours. Social psychology (cid:523)scientific study of how individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the. Self-schema (beliefs people hold about themselves that guide how they process self-relevant info how they. Self-concept (cid:523)an individual"s perception of self, including knowledge, feelings, and ideas about oneself. Schematicity (the importance of particular self-schemas to a person"s self-concept) when a self-schema is central to a person"s self-concept, that person is said to be schematic with respect to that attribute. E. g. if you value yourself as honest, you are likely to harshly evaluate a stranger who wasn"t. This week we will explore 3 interrelated areas of social perception: perception of self/others/social groups.