PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Fundamental Attribution Error, Availability Heuristic, Impression Formation
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Social psychology: branch of psychology that studies our social nature how the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others influences our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Social cognition: the processes involved in perceiving, interpreting, and acting on social information. Major task of social psychology is to understand how we first form impressions of others. To answer how perceptions thoughts and motives of one person become known to other persons they study: impression formation: the way in which we integrate information about another"s traits into a coherent sense of who the person is. Schema: mental framework or body of knowledge that organizes and synthesizes information about a person place or thing. Central traits: personality attributes that organize and influence the interpretation of other traits. Central traits impart meaning to other known traits and suggest the presence of other traits that have yet to be revealed. Asch"s tests of this focused on the warm/cold trait dimension.
