PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Operant Conditioning, Wield, Social Loafing
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Chapter 16: social behaviour: minorities are often targets of discrimination, stereotypes and prejudice. Social psychology: branch of psychology concerned with the ways individuals thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by others: person perception: how we formulate how others are like, what extent one"s expectations impact judgements. 3: attitudes, conformity and obedience, behaviour in groups, social neuroscience. Impressions can dramatically be affected by just one piece of info: central traits are important in impression formation. Person perception: the process of forming impressions of others. Impressions are inaccurate at times because of bias and fallacies: ingenuity in piecing together clues about other"s characteristics. Judgements of other"s personality are greatly affected by appearance: good looking people command more of our attention. Attractive people are seen as more sociable, friendly, poised, warm and well adjusted. Expected to have better lives: attractive people in the media have positive image, our perceptions are swayed by the desired to bond with attractive people.
