PSYC 1030H Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Observational Learning, Social Perception, Elaine Hatfield

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1030H
• Professor: James Parker

Document Summary

If you do not have a self-schema relevant to a particular domain, you are referred to as being aschematic in that domain. Stereotypes: stereotypes are special kinds of schemas that fall into the latter category. Illusionary correlation occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually been. An evolutionary perspective on bias in person perception: attractiveness as being associated with reproductive potential in women and with health. Ingroup often seen in a favorable light, while outgroup is seen with various negative stereotypes: the human tendency to automatically categorize other people may reflect the primitive need to quickly separate friend from foe. Internal vs external attributions: fritz heider was the first to describe how people make attributions. He asserted that people tend to locate the cause of behaviour either within a person, attributing it to personal factors, or outside a person, attributing it to environmental factors.