PSYC 1030H Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Hazel Rose Markus, Social Perception, Illusory Correlation
20 Mar 2019
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Person perception: forming impressions of others: person perception is the process of forming impressions of others, are often inaccurate because of the many biases and fallacies that occur in person perception. Cognitive schemes: social schemas are organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people, self-schema is an integrated set of memories, beliefs, and generalizations about one"s behaviour in a given domain, hazel markus described self-schemas. Illusory correlation occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen. An evolutionary perspective on bias in person perception: some of the biases seen is social perception were adaptive in humans" ancestral environment, humans are programmed to classify people as members of: An ingroup is a group that one belongs to and identifies with (viewed in a favourable light) An outgroup is a group that one does not belong to or identify with (viewed in terms of negative stereotypes)
