PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Social Loafing, Group Polarization, Group Cohesiveness
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Social psychology the branch of psychology concerned with the way i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals" thoughts, feeli(cid:374)gs, a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iours are i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) others. Person perception: forming impressions of others: person perception the process of forming impressions of others. Cognitive schemas: social schemas organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people. Stereotypes: stereotypes widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group. Subjectivity and bias in person perception: illusory correlation occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen. An evolutionary perspective on bias in person perception: in-group a group that one belongs to and identifies with, out-group a group that one does not belong to or identify with. Attribution processes: explaining behaviour: attributions inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others" (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour, a(cid:374)d their o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour.
