PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Long-Term Memory, Physical Attractiveness, Social Cognition
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Psych 100 lecture 27 social psychology. Social psychology: how the presence of others influences our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Social cognition: our thoughts, perceptions, and memories of others and ourselves: first impressions: based on physical attractiveness (attribute more positive qualities to those who are attractive, social schemas: general knowledge in long term memory of social experiences. Stereotypes: assumption that members of a group are all alike (can be positive or negative) Prejudice: negative attitudes towards others based on gender, religion, race, or other group characteristics. Discrimination: negative behavior towards others based on gender, race, religion, etc. Self-fulfilling prophecies: our expectations/attitudes may create the expected behavior in others. Attributions: the causes/explanations for behavior (external versus internal attributions: example: joe is smiling. External attribution (environment): something good must have happened to joe. Internal attribution (personality): joe is a happy guy. Self-serving bias: we attribute our failures to external causes and our successes to internal causes.
