SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Georg Simmel, Impression Formation, Centrality

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Jeff Racine

Document Summary

Construcing an understanding of the social world from the data we get through our senses. The processes by which we form impressions of other people"s trait and personaliies. The process of inferring the causes of a person"s behaviour. Atribuion theory: heider & simmel an experimental study of apparent behaviour (1944) Short clip created: asked to describe what they see within the video. Box, with 2 triangles and a circle. Big triangle is chasing the other two around. Big triangle is aggressive to the other traits. Big triangle, is dominaing the small triangle, circle is a bystander, or a signiicant other, trying to be rescued. They found that people were very good at interpreing things. We realize that the big triangle is dominant, and the litle triangle isn"t, the circle is a bystander and jointed together with the litle triangle. Some people formed a percepion of gender.