PSYA02H3 Chapter : PSYA02 Ch 15

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: John Bassili

Document Summary

Social psychology, the branch of psych that studies our social nature how the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others influences our thoughts, feelings, and bhvrs. Social cognition, the processes involved in perceiving, interpreting, and acting on social info. A major task of social psych is to understand how ppl form impressions of others. Impression formation, the way we integrate info about another s traits into a coherent sense of who the person is. Schema, a mental framework of body of knowledge that organizes and synthesizes info about a person, place, or thing (schemata guides our interpretations) Central traits, personality attributes that organize and influence the interpretation of other traits. > organize and influence our understanding of other traits a person possesses to a greater extent than do other traits. > witty, smart, and warm = positive sense of the person.