PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Leon Festinger, Clearcutting, Fundamental Attribution Error
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social psychology: the field of psychology that studies our social nature. how the thoughts, feelings and behaviour of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. social cognition: how people attend to, perceive, interpret, and respond to the social world. we form impressions of others through interaction or based on reports with others. we assign characteristics to people - task of social psychology is to understand how we form these impressions. impression formation: the way in which we integrate information about another"s traits into a coherent sense of who the person is. schema: a mental framework or body of knowledge that organizes and synthesizes information about a person, place or thing. they aid us in interpreting the world. because of schema it makes it easier for a person to interpret a random passage when the title of a known subject is given (ex.