PSYA02H3 Chapter 15: Chapter 15- social psychology notes!
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Social psychology: a branch of psychology which studies people"s social nature (how the presence of others influences our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours). Social cognition: how people attend to, perceive, interpret, and respond to the social world. Impression formation: the way we form information about another"s traits into a sense of who the person is. Main focus of social cognition is the concept of schema (body of knowledge that organizes and synthesizes information about a person, place, or thing) Central traits: they help us organize and influence our understand of other traits a person has. The words polite and blunt fall into the warm and cold trait list. negative influence of the cold trait is stronger than the positive influence of the. people tend to respond more to someone who is rude (they will stop talking to them) than someone who is polite (it doesn"t bother them they don"t really care).
