PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14-18: Fundamental Attribution Error, Mirror Neuron, Social Cognition
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Social cognition: the process involving perceiving, interpreting, and acting on social information. Schema: a mental framework or body of knowledge that organizes and synthesizes about a person, place or thing. Central traits: personality attributes that organize and influence the interpretation of other traits. Primacy effect: the tendency to form impressions of people based on the first information we receive about them. Self-schema: a mental framework that represents and synthesizes information about oneself; a cognitive structure that organizes the knowledge, feelings, and ideas that constitute the self-concept. Attribution: the process by which people infer the cause of other peoples behaviours. Primary classifications that we make concerning the causes of a persons behaviour is the relative importance of situational (external) or dispositional (internal) factors. External factors are stimuli in the physical and social environment, such as living conditions, other people, societal norms, and laws.
