PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Social Cognition
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Chapter 15 social psychology social psychology: branch of psychology that studies our social nature how the actual, imagine, or implied presence of others influences our thought, feelings, and behaviours. Our perception are affected by our interactions with others. Social cognition social cognition: the processes involved in perceiving, interpreting, and acting on social information. Schema schema: a mental frame work or body of knowledge that organizes and synthesizes information about a person, place, or thing. Central traits someone describes another person to you as witty, smart, and warm impression of them = positive someone describes another person to you as witty, smart, and cold impression of them = less positive. Foolish women were more desirable than foolish men. Primacy effect: tendency to form impressions of people based on the first information we receive about them as the person speaks, we purposefully think about those behaviours and what they reveal about the persons qualities.
