PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Impression Formation, Attribution Bias, Social Loafing

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

Document Summary

Impression formation, the way in which we integrate. Belief in a just word information about another"s traits into a coherent sense of who the person is. A central theme is the schema, a mental framework of knowledge that organizes and synthesizes information about a person, place or thing. Understanding is greater when people know the topic/ title of something before it is introduced. Central traits, introduced by asch, organize and influence our understanding of other traits. The cold-warm dimension either gives way for farther positive or negative assumptions to be made about a person. Words such as polite and blunt did not have this same effect and are thus peripheral traits. First impressions are formed based on incoming information; the information gathered first generally prevails in our opinions of that person (primacy effect). The way you describe yourself is an expression of your self- concept, your knowledge, feelings, and ideas about yourself (self-identity).