PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Social Perception, Stereotype, Collective Behavior

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1002
• Professor: Mara Fuentes Avila

Document Summary

Week 8: social behavior: social interaction, group processes, collective behavior, basic concepts associated with social influences how social environments influence others. Social psychology: social interaction, process of social influences (individual behavior in a social context) Individual thoughts, feelings and how they are influenced by others. Person perception: when you interact with another person immediately/automatically derive from that person. Schemas : cognitive structures that guide information processes organized cluster of ideas about specific categories of events or people. Whenever we deal with a specific social environment, we have to derive/understand it in terms of personal senses. How: classify the social environment by dividing it into different categories, use criteria in order to divide the environment. Once we make the division, we classify the members of that environment according to the categories we created. Ie: social environment -> 400 students ->gender (m/f) -> social role. Different criteria that a person can use in order to classify the environment.