PSYC 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Operant Conditioning, Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Facilitation
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Social psychology: discipline that studies how people think about, influence and relate to other people. Social cognition:study of how people use cognitive processes such as perception, memory, thought and emotion, to help them make sense of other people as wella s themselves. Perception influenced by our physical appearance, social schemas, stereotypes, self fulfilling prophecy, prejudice (and discrimination), With bottom up processing (the actual physical sensations received) and top down processing (taking into account our expectations and beliefs of the world) Physical attractive assume more intelligent better adjusted, more socially aware. Social schema: general knowledge structure, storeid in long term memory, that relates to social experiences or people. Social schema: generally adaptive, direct and guides behavior, can lead to inappropriate conclusions or actions. Stereotypes: when social schemas revolve around the traits and behaviors of groups and their memories; collection of beliefs and impressions (could be based on gender, race, age)
