PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Contact Hypothesis, Collectivism, Fundamental Attribution Error
16 Mar 2017
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Social cognition - how people mentally process, perceive, and think about other people: explicit processes - correspond to conscious thought, deliberative, effortful, slow, and generally under our intentional control. Implicit processes - comprise our unconscious, thought, intuitive, automatic, effortless, fast, and operate largely out of our intentional control: explicit processes influence implicit processes when our beliefs influence how we process information. Person perception: person perception - the processes by which individuals categorize and form judgements about other people, begins the instant we encounter someone, due to implicit processes, schemas guide our impression on people. Impressions are formed fast and accurate not: evolutionary benefit. Self-fulfilling prophecies and other consequences of first impressions. False consensus effect - this tendency to project the self concept onto the social world: our perceptions of reality are accurate. If people are different from us, they are weird, and wrong.
