PSYC 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Ellen S. Berscheid, Wrinkle, Elaboration Likelihood Model
3 Feb 2017
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Social psychology: the branch of psychology concerned w/ the way individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others. 7 broad topics : person perception, attribution processes, interpersonal attraction, attitudes, conformity & obedience, behavior in groups, social neuroscience. Person perception: the process of forming impressions of others. Cognitive schemas: schemas cognitive structures that guide information processing, social schemas: organized clusters of ideas abt categories of social events. & people: schemas help people to efficiently process & store information taken in through interactions, people routinely place one another in categories influences the process of person perception. Italians are passionate: occupational stereotypes lawyers are manipulative; accountants are conforming; artists are moody; etc. Study 1: white undergraduate males interviewed either a black or white job applicant; when the job applicant was black, interviewers tended to sit farther away, end interview more quickly, and make more speech errors. White interviewee immediate style (sitting closer, more eye contact, etc. )
