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Social psychology the branch of psychology that studies our social nature how the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others influences or thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. The important people in our lives shape our emotions, thoughts and personalities. Our perceptions are also affected by our interactions with others. Sizing up social situation depends on many cognitive processes, including memory for people, places, and events; concept formation skills; and, more fundamentally, sensory and perceptual abilities. Social cognition the processes involved in perceiving, interpreting and acting on social information. Impression formation the way in which we integrate information about another"s traits into a coherent sense of who the person is. Asch pointed out more than 4 decades ago that our impressions of others are formed by more complex rules than just a simple sum of characteristics that we use to describe people. Schema a mental framework or body of knowledge that organizes and synthesizes information about a person, place or thing.
