PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Parenting Styles, Victim Blaming, Classical Conditioning

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Social psychology: concerned with the way individuals" thoughts, (cid:1) feelings, and behaviours are influenced by others (cid:1) (cid:1) Person perception: the process of forming impressions of others. Physical appearance: judgments of others" personality are often swayed by their appearance (especially physical attractiveness) Social schemas: categories of social events and people: help to store information about others. Stereotypes: widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group. Bias: people see what they want to see: illusory correlation: people overestimate how often they see stereotypes/biases, i. e. I"ve never met an honest lawyer : memory processes contribute to this. Attributional processes: inferences about the causes of events, (cid:1) others" behaviour, and their own behaviour. Ascribe the causes of behaviour to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings carelessness. Ascribe the causes of behaviour to situational demands and environmental constraints slippery roads. Stability dimensions: unstable is temporary: stable is permanent.

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