PSYC 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Groupthink, Group Polarization, Behavioral Activation
15 Apr 2016
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Social psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with the way individual"s thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by others. Person perception: the process of forming impressions of others. Self-concept: the basis for self-understanding, forms to answer the question who am i ? . They influence our view of the world by directing attention, organizing encoding and influences retrieval. Social schemas: organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people. Self-schema: an integrated set of memories, beliefs and generalizations about one"s behaviour in a given domain. First impressions: initial schemas when encountering someone for the first time, that affect future beliefs about that person. Stereotypes: widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group. It allows us to simplify experiences and allow quick and effortless categorization. Broad overgeneralization ignoring diversity within social groups and foster inaccurate perceptions of people. Gender - assume women are emotional, submissive, illogical and passive.
