PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Perception, Illusory Correlation, Interpersonal Attraction

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: weitan

Document Summary

Chapter 13: social behaviour: social psychology: concerned with the way individuals thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by bothers, seven broad topics, person perception, attribution processes, interpersonal attraction, attitudes, conformity, behaviour in groups, social neuroscience. Subjectivity and bias in person perception: schemas and biases lead to person perception that usually lead to confirmation of peoples expectations about others, people tend to overestimate often how they see it. Ingroup tend to be viewd in a favourable light. Attributions for success and failure: people often focus on stability of the causes underlying behaviour, 4 types of attribtuions for success and failure. Interpersonal attraction: positive feelings towards another: encompass a variety of experiences, including liking, friendship, admiration, lust, love. Infant attachment and romantic relationships: peoples romantic relationships in adulthood are similar to form in their attachment patternsin infancy (determined by parental caregiving styles)