PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Victim Blaming, The Roots, Illusory Correlation

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Social cognition social cognition: the processes involved in perceiving, interpreting, and acting on social information. Schema schema: a mental frame work or body of knowledge that organizes and synthesizes information about a person, place, or thing. Central traits someone describes another person to you as witty, smart, and warm : impression of them = positive someone describes another person to you as witty, smart, and cold , impression of them = less positive. Foolish women were more desirable than foolish men. markus and kitayama two construal"s of the self that reflect cultural differences www. notesolution. com: the independent construal. Attribution a t t ribution: the process by which people infer the causes of other people"s behaviours. we use the fundamental attribution error when we observe the behaviour of others but not when we explain the causes of our own behaviours but. Why!???!: 1) we have a different focus of attention when we view ourselves.

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