PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Observer-Expectancy Effect, Cognitive Dissonance, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Social psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by others. Person perception: the process of forming impressions of others. Social schemas: are organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people. Occupational stereotypes: lawyers are manipulative, accountants are conforming, artists are moody. Illusory correlation: occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen. Evolutionary theorists attribute this behaviour to our distant ancestors" need to quickly separate friend from foe. Assert that humans are programmed by evolution to immediately classify people as members ingroup- a group that one belongs to and identifies with outgroup- a group that one does not belong to or identify with. Attributions: inferences that people draw about the causes of events others" behaviour, and their own behaviour.