PSYC 1002 Chapter 13: Chapter 13 Textbook notes

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1002
• Professor: Bruce Tsuji

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Chapter 13 social behaviour textbook notes: social psychology a (cid:271)(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:272)h of ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396)(cid:374)ed (cid:449)ith the (cid:449)a(cid:455) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals" thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by others, seven broad coverages of social psychology, person perception, attribution processes. Cognitive schemas: schemas cognitive structures that guides information processing. Individuals use schemas to organize the world around them, including their social world: social schemas organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people. People have social schemas for events such as dates, picnics, committee meetings, and family reunions as well as for certain categories of people such as (cid:862)du(cid:373)(cid:271) jo(cid:272)ks(cid:863), so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)li(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396)s, (cid:862)fat (cid:396)ats(cid:863), a(cid:374)d (cid:862)(cid:449)i(cid:373)ps(cid:863). They were first described by hazel markus. If you do not have a self-schema relevant to a particular domain, you are referred to as schematic in the domain. Stereotypes: stereotypes special types of schemas that fall into the latter category.