SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Centrality, Asian Cuisine, Latanya Sweeney
23 Apr 2016
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Such as self, person and group: heuristics. Such as availability and representativeness: traits and impression formation, attribution theory. Dispositional vs. situational: biases, rosenhan and sweeney studies. Making sense of the social world: social perception refers to constructing 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 traits and personalities: attribution refers to the process of inferring the causes of a person"s behaviour. For example, motives, traits and situational pressures. Attribution theory: heider and simmel, 1944, an experimental study of apparent behaviour . How did we come to this explanation: we used schemas which is a well-organized structure of cognitions about some social entity such as a person, group, role, or event. Schemas help us to categorize in order to understand information. For example, we associate a set of speci c behaviours with a person we deem to be.
