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Social Psychology:
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a branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals thoughts,
feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others
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Person Perception
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how we formulate ideas about others, color and
impressions
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Attribution Process:
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behavior of others/own reflections, causes of
behavior
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Interpersonal Attraction
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factors to attraction, relationships, roles of
similarity
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Attitudes:
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how they are formed, attitude change, how they
affect behaviour
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Conformity:
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factors of conformity, people being coaxed into doing things that they
contradict
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Behaviour in Groups:
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various groups, behave differently in groups,
think alike
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Effects of Physical Appearance:
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-judgments of personality are often swayed by appearance
(physical attractiveness)
-little correlation between attractiveness and personality
traits
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attractive people are vastly overrepresented in
the media
-baby-faced features-large eyes, smooth skin, rounded chin are
more honest and trustworthy
-perception of personality based on facial features are
associated with objective measures of successful performance in areas of life
-takes 1/10 of a second
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Social Schemas:
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organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people
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Stereotypes:
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-widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics
because of their membership in a particular group
-most common are based on sex, age, ethnic background,
occupation
-energy savers of oversimplification, inaccurate
-think in terms of slanted probabilities
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Immediate Style:Non-immedate Style:
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-siting closer and more eye contact-opposite of immediate
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Illusory Correlations:
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occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more
confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually
seen
-memory processes confirm biases in person perception as
individuals often recall facts that fit with their schemas and stereotypes
-evolution can change this as humans are programmed by
evolution to immediately classify people as members
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Ingroup:
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a group that one belongs to and identifies with, viewed in favour
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Outgroup:
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a group that one does not belong to or identify with, viewed in negative
stereotypes
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Attributions:
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inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others
behavior and their own behavior (procrastination-own behavior,
overworked-friends behavior)
-want to make sense out of behaviors/experiences
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