SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Tom Cruise, Impression Formation, Scottish People
10 Mar 2014
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Summary of self: self and identity, genesis & social origins of self, cooley, mead: social theory, philosophy, role/social identities, tajfel, burke, stryker: experimental, surveys, presentation of self, goffman: ethnographic, social perception data we get through our senses. : hieder & simmel an experimental study of apparent behaviour. And prototypes: abstractions that represent the typical of a class or group i. e. wealthy, cultured, rough neck, etc. Schemas: making certain facts easier to remember - memory retention, helping us process information faster with schemas, guiding our inferences/judgments about people and objects - fight/flight, help us interpret ambiguous elements in the situation. Personal schemas are cognitive structures that describe the personalities of other individuals. (jealous type - friend, tom cruise - weird, boring people - unhappy) Self-schemas are structures that organize our conception of our own characteristics. (are you a shy person, outgoing, etc. )
