PSY1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reference Group, Social Cognition, Norm (Social)
22 Sep 2020
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Chapter 11: introduction to social cognition and influence. The study of how people"s thoughts, feelings and behaviour influence and are influenced by the behaviour of others. The mental processes associated with people"s perceptions of and reactions to other people. The process whereby an individual"s behaviour is affected by another person"s words or actions. 15. 1 the various social influences on the self. The three forms of social influence: social comparison, social norm, social identity. Social comparison: using other people as a basis of comparison for evaluating oneself, people often self-evaluate themselves (assessing their own perceptions, opinions, values and abilities), self-evaluation can be conducted based on 2 things, objective measurements (height, weight etc. ) Can measure/count: non-objective measurements (cognitive abilities, social skills, talents etc. ) Immeasurable: how do we self-evaluate things that are not under the objective measurement criteria, conduct two types of comparisons. Temporal comparison - consider our state now compared to the past.
