Psychology 2035A/B Chapter 7: chapter 7 - social thinking and social influence

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Textbook: social cognition: how people think about people, as well as themselves. Forming impressions of others: person perception: the process of forming impressions of others. Key sources of information: dependent on observations of others to determine what they are like, five key sources of observational information, appearance. People do judge people based on what they look like. Multiracial individuals are remembered less well than those whose race is the same as (ingroup) or distinctly different from (outgroup) that of perceivers. Same-race bias accounts for whether people are recalled. Racially ambiguous faces were recalled less accurately than own-race. Memory for biracial faces can be enhanced if the perceivers are motivated to see such faces as part of the ingroup faces: verbal behaviour. People form impressions based on what and how much others self- disclose, how often they give advice and ask questions, and how judgmental they are.