PS102 Chapter 16: Chapter 16.docx
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Chapter 16: social behaviour: what is social psychology, study of how social stimuli influence our behaviour, we are far more influenced by others than we realize. 1: social schemas: are cognitive structures that guide information processing. Individuals use schemas to organize the world around them including their social world. people. are organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and. Watches tv often: prejudice, discrimination: on the grounds of race, age, or sex. preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. 1: the implication that differences are inborn and un-changeable occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations. Illusory correlation: of an association between social traits than they have actually seen. Ingroup: a group that one does not belong to or identify with. is a group that one belongs to and identifies with.