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Title: Social Psychology


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Social Psychology
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I. Social Psychology
  1. The Study of how people influence and are
    influenced by others

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II. The Self
  1. What we perceive ourselves to be
  2. Self Schemas cognitive structures that allow
    people to differentiate themselves from others
  3. Social Comparison we compare ourselves to
    others to form a view of ourselves
  4. Personality Identity composed of an
    individual's thoughts and emotions
    (self-knowledge and evaluation)
  5. Social Identity based on the impressions
    someone makes, what others think of that person
    within a group.

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III. Perceiving Others
  • Schemas structure our perception of events,
    make predictions about the future, decide on
    goals and plans
  • Ex First impressions
  • Attribution theory explaining the behavior of
    others in terms of their personality traits or
    other external factors.
  • Ex Blonde hair must lack of intelligence

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IV. Attitudes
  • Beliefs and feelings about people, objects or
    events that cause us to behave in certain ways.
  • Ex Thats how those people are.
  • Social Schemas- the ideas we have formed about
    social groups.
  • Ex when we meet someone new we put them into
    pre-existing groups (slacker, go getter, surfer,
    etc.)

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Effects of Attitudes
  1. Stereotypes distorted generalized beliefs
  2. Prejudice unfounded, generally negative,
    attitude
  3. Discrimination unfair treatment of individuals
    because of membership in a group
  4. Attraction draw towards a person or group due
    to similarity, proximity or reciprocity.

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VI. Causes of Prejudice
  • Categorization
  • Exaggeration of Differences assuming those who
    are different are more different than they really
    are

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  • Justifying Economic or Role Status explaining
    status by providing reasons why an economic or
    role status exists. (ex poverty unwillingness
    to work)
  • Observational Learning imitating the behaviors
    observed in an environment (ex children adopting
    parents beliefs).
  • Scapegoating finding someone else to blame for a
    problem

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VII. Social Categories
  1. Gender
  2. Race
  3. Ethnicity
  4. Sexual Orientation
  5. Disabilities
  6. Economic Status
  7. Education Level
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