PSYC 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Group Polarization, Cognitive Dissonance, Ethnocentrism
24 Feb 2017
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Social psych is the branch of psych concerned with the way individuals thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by others. Person perception is the process of forming impressions of others. Social schemas are organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events or people. Self-scheme is an integrated set of memories, beliefs, and generalizations about one"s behaviour in a given domain. Illusion correlation occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen. See what they expects to see and overestimate how often they see it. Ingroup is a group that one belongs to and identifies with. Outgroup is a group that one does not identify with or belong to. Attributions are inferences that people draw about the causes of events, other"s behaviour, and their own behaviour. Internal attributions ascribe the causes of behaviour to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings.
