PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Fritz Heider, Fundamental Attribution Error, Victim Blaming
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Social psychology branch of psychology concerned with the way individual"s thoughts, feelings, and behavior are influenced by others. Person perception the process of forming impressions on others. Social schemas organized clusters of idea about categories of social events and people. Stereotypes widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group: gender stereotypes, ethnic stereotypes, age stereotypes, occupational stereotypes. Illusory correlation occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have seen. In-group a group that one belongs to and identifies with. Out-group a group that one does not belong to and does not identify with. Ex: friends business fails, you attribute it to his/her lack of business acumen: external attributions ascribes the causes of behavior to situational demands and environmental constraints. Ex: negative trends in a nation"s economic climate: stable attribution permanent, unstable attribution temporary, ex: failing to get the job that you wanted.
