PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Fundamental Attribution Error, Elaboration Likelihood Model, Social Identity Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

Scientific study of how individuals thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by social context: social perception. Refers to the sum of total beliefs that people have about themselves: composed of several self-schemas. Beliefs that people hold about themselves that guide processing of self relevant information. Certain attributes are more important to a persons self concept than others. Schematic when a self schema is central to a persons self concept. Influences how we behave in certain situations. Attribute that is not important to a person. When they are getting food, one will care, and one will not care about their body weight: the one who does not care is aschematic. Self awareness: ability to recognize oneself as a distinct entity and develops self concept. Recognizing oneself in the mirror is used to test the existence of self awareness. Rouge test, recognizing a red mark placed on the.