PSYC 1010 Chapter 16: Psych Notes (Chapter 16).docx

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

Document Summary

Social psychology branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by others. Interpersonal attraction: person perception, attribution processes, attitudes, conformity and obedience, behaviour in groups. Social psychologists study how people are affected by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others: study individual behaviour in social context. Person perception the process of forming impressions of others. Studies show physical appearance has a lot to do with how a person judges other. Attractive people grab people attentions: they are overrepresented in the media. People tend to view those with baby-faced features big eyes, smooth skin, rounded chin as more honest and trustworthy. Most of the time, physical appearance is not associated with personality. Social schemas organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people. Stereotypes widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group. Sex, age, and membership in ethnic or occupational group.