PSY-1200 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Social Perception, Ingroups And Outgroups, Social Loafing
19 Apr 2017
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How we think about each other-social cognition. How we relate to each other-social behavior: we live in coordination of other. Typical spatial zones (in feet) for face-to-face interactions in north. Often, we must stand within intimate distance of others in crowds, buses, subways, elevators, and other public places. Social perception is the process of forming impressions of individuals. People interpret information about others by watching behaviors. Self-schemas are mental representations of beliefs and views about ourselves: some have relatively unified self-schemas while others have differentiated self-schemas. Our self-schemas can have a strong impact on our emotional experiences. Self-schemas also contain information about future or possible selves. Our schemas about people can affect our perception of them: we tend to process schema consistent information about people more quickly, schemas influence what we remember about others, schemas affect our judgments about the behavior of others. Everyone has social schemas for various (cid:862)t(cid:455)pes(cid:863) of people, su(cid:272)h as sophisti(cid:272)ated professio(cid:374)als of (cid:449)orki(cid:374)g-class stiffs.
