PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Illusory Correlation, Social Perception, Speech Error

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jill Bee Rich

Document Summary

Social psychology: branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by others. Focusing on 6 topics: personal perception, attribution process, interpersonal attraction, attitudes, conformity and obedience, behavior in groups. Importance of central traits can influence impression of. Person perception: the process of forming impressions of others. Judgments of others can be distorted by their physical appearance, as we tend to ascribe desirable personality characteristics to those who are good looking. Perceptions of competence based on facial appearance, which can be made in the blink of an eye, are particularly important. Social schemas: are organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people like dumb jocks . Stereotypes are special kinds of schemas that fall into latter category. Maybe due to media, beautiful ppl associated with good things. Widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group. Schemas and stereotypes can influence our perception of others.