SOC10722 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Emor, Dispositional Attribution, Law School Admission Test
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Functions: schemas help us to process inputs to choose a course of action (limit range of inputs we pay attention to) Limit the range of inputs we pay attention to help us focus. Order the relative importance of inputs create salience. Make the unfamiliar familiar reduce ambiguity. Fill in gaps in our knowledge conjure missing pieces. Bundles of personality traits (individuals, roles, and types) Organized along dimensions (intellectual, social, physical, etc. : *group schemas = stereotypes. Can be constructed based on personal experience. More likely to stereotype out-groups as opposed to in-groups. The higher one"s status, the more likely one is to use. Illusions of out-group homogeneity: *role schemas = based on a person"s role rather than social group stereotypes. Ex: librarian, actress, chef of the situation: *event schemas = more than simply behaving according to the norms. Includes the meanings we assign to the activity and the motives behind people"s behavior. Ex: first date, interview or try-out, retirement.
