PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Comparison Theory, Impression Formation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

Document Summary

Ater working through this lesson"s material, you should be able to: Deine self-concept and how schemata guide our interpretaion of people"s behaviour including our own. In what ways to we demonstrate a lack of self-knowledge (afecive forecasing, self- percepion) Describe the role that culture and language play in establishing our self-concept. Describe how self-esteem can alert us to change our behaviour. Describe the diferent ways that people manage their self-esteem. Describe personal and situaional atribuions and the types of informaion used in making such judgments. Describe the mental shortcuts (heurisics) used in social cogniion and the fallacies associated with them. Describe factors in impression formaion and the process by which we reach impressions. Describe the ways in which our aitudes inluence our behaviour. Compare and contrast explicit and implicit aitudes and explain how they are measured. Social psychology: the scieniic study of how individuals" thoughts, feelings and behaviours are inluenced by social context.