SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Trait Theory, Social Inequality, Impression Formation
16 Nov 2018
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Types of schemas: person schemas, describes the personalities of others, specific individuals. Includes people we personally know, as well as public figures that we are very aware of: types of individuals. Abstract person schemas/ implicit personality theory: preconceived notions or assumptions about personality traits of an individual, example: jaden always helps out people in the neighborhood, therefore, Jaden is good: halo-effect, role of warmth and competence, self-schema, organizes our conceptions/perceptions of our self and our traits, group schemas (stereotypes): Influences on our impression formation, include: trait centrality, meaning, the impact of a trait on our overall impression (ibid: 224, example: your family doctor lacks bedside manner and you view the physician as uncaring, primacy effect: Information we receive early on becomes more dominant in impression formation: recency effect (jones & goethals, 1971; steiner rain, 1989): information that is more recent/newer has stronger impact on our impressions, self-fulfilling prophecy (rosenthal and jacobson. ,1968)
