Social Cognition How we think about others and how those thoughts influence us Attitudes and Attitude Formation Impression Formation Attribution Cognitive.

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

Social psychology Concerned with how others influence the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of the individual Social thinking When something unexpected.

Advertisements

Aronson Social Psychology, 5/e Copyright © 2005 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chapter 4 Social Perception: How We Come to Understand Other People.

Social Cognition AP Psychology.

Overview  How do we perceive people?  How do we form and change attitudes?  How are we attracted to others?  How do others influence our behavior?

Attribution Theory People are motivated to understand the causes of behavior. Attribution theory seeks to explain how and why people make these causal.

© Pearson Education Limited 2015

Social Psychology Social Psychology studies how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. Humans are the most social of the animals (i.e.,

The study of how we think about, influence and relate to one another.

Attitudes & Attributions Scott Johns and Jenna Callen.

 Process by which one infers other people’s motives and intentions from observing their behavior and deciding whether the causes of the behavior.

Copyright ©2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall.

The Best of Both Worlds of Psychology and Sociology

Social Psychology Unit 1-2 tests & dates Variety of activities Objective & outline for unit posted on website.

WHS AP Psychology Unit 12: Social Pyschology Essential Task 12-1:Apply attribution theory to explain the behavior of others with specific attention to.

1 PSYCHOLOGY, Ninth Edition in Modules David Myers PowerPoint Slides Aneeq Ahmad Henderson State University Worth Publishers, © 2010.

1 Social Thinking Module Social Psychology Social Thinking Overview  Attributing Behavior to Persons or to Situations  Attitudes and Action.

You’ve Got an Attitude! PICK UP THE HANDOUT FROM THE TABLE IN THE BACK!!!

Social psychology the study of how people think, feel, & behave in social situations.

Social Psychology.

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Unit 8 How do we relate to others? How do others influence our thoughts & behaviors?

1 7 th Edition John D. DeLamater University of Wisconsin–Madison Daniel J. Myers University of Notre Dame.

You’ve Got An Attitude!. Handout Time!  Fill out the questionnaire using Britney Spears as your inspiration.

PERSON PERCEPTION Forming Impressions of Others. Effects of Physical Appearance Judgments of other’s personalities are swayed by their appearance Those.

Social Perception & Attributions

Social Psychology Study through experimentation of how we think about, influence, and relate to other people.

Psychology 001 Introduction to Psychology Christopher Gade, PhD Office: 621 Heafey Office hours: F 3-6 and by apt. Class WF 7:00-8:30.

Social Psychology The study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another In other words, why do we do what we do, how do we treat, interact.

THEORIES ABOUT MOTIVES IN RELATIONSHIPS-1 Interpersonal Communication, Session 04 Interpersonal Communication, Session 04 by Z. Hidayat, MM, MSi. 1 Attribution.

Social Perception The ways in which people perceive on another

1 Social Psychology: Attributions, Attitudes, Role Playing and Conformity.

1 Social Thinking Module 43. QR code for the SG for the Exam 2.

Social Psychology 2.

Social Psychology  The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another.

1 Social Thinking Module Social Psychology Social Thinking Overview  Attributing Behavior to Persons or to Situations  Attitudes and Action.

Introducing Social Psychology Copyright © 2008 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Social Psychology by David G. Myers 9 th Edition Introducing Social Psychology.

AP Psychology 8-10% of AP Exam

“We cannot live for ourselves alone.” - Herman Melville - Social Psychologists study how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.

Social Cognition The study of how information about people is processed and stored. Our thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs about people are influenced.

Module 53 Social Thinking Worth Publishers. Social Thinking  Social Psychology  scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one.

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Chapter 13. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY  Social psychology: The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and.

Social Thinking and Social Influence. Introduction.

8 Chapter Foundations of Individual Behavior Copyright ©2011 Pearson Education.

Social Perception & Attributions Social psychologists study how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.

Social Psychology AttitudeAttractionGroup Behavior.

1 Social Psychology: Social Thinking Module Focuses in Social Psychology Social psychology scientifically studies how we think about, influence,

DO NOW Read the 5 scenarios and answer the following questions.

WHS AP Psychology Unit 12: Social Pyschology Essential Task 12-1:Apply attribution theory to explain the behavior of others with specific attention to.

Social Psychology The study of how we think about, influence and relate to one another.

Social Psychology Unit 12 Attributions. Attribution Theory Attribution = explanation Attribution Theory Explain others behaviors by crediting the situation.

Social Psychology the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.

Module 53 Social Thinking

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Social psychology: the study of how we think about (thoughts), feel towards (emotion), and influence and relate (behavior) to one another.

Social Thinking Module 74

Unit 2: Social Psychology

Attitudes, Actions, and Attributions

EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (7th Edition in Modules) David Myers

“We cannot live for ourselves alone.”

Attribution Theory Attributions - are the reasons we we give for our own and others behaviors. People are motivated to understand the causes of behavior.

Errors in Judging Others: The Fundamental Attribution Error

Social Psychology Study social influences that help explain why people behave the way they do in various situations How do we explain other people’s behavior?

9/3/16 Social Psychology! - Get out your notes for Unit 14!

Bell Ringer!!! Let this be the beginning of your notes. I will check your bell ringer during the second half of class! Question: Its 12 A.M., you are walking.

Social Psychology The scientific study of how we think about, influence and relate to one another.

The study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another

Theories of Social Cognition In Psychology:

Social Psychology The scientific study of how we think about, influence and relate to one another.

What is Social Psychology?

Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules)

Social Cognition.

Chapter 18 Social Thinking.

Presentation transcript:

Social Cognition How we think about others and how those thoughts influence us Attitudes and Attitude Formation Impression Formation Attribution Cognitive Dissonance

Schemas Our concept of something Example: children have schemas about what a dog is. At first they think a dog is all furry animals with tails.

Social schema Organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people. Examples: Tell me about Nerds Jocks Firefighters Librarians

Person Perception First impressions are powerful Social Categorization- quickly assign a person to a group Tend to notice behaviors in others that already fit our preconceived notions. Notice the Asians who get straight As. Notice the White guy who can’t dance.

Implicit Personality Theory Assume certain things are related. Varies by culture Rich people are happy Attractive people are nicer Quiet people are shy Athletic people aren’t intellectual

Stereotypes Type of schema A specific characteristic we assume somebody has because of their social schema. Oh, you are from South Carolina. You must hate Northerners and have Confederate flags all over your house!

Confirmation Bias Focus on what confirms our beliefs Ignore events that do not fit with our stereotypes and tell ourselves that that is a rare exception. Educated, entrepreneur, millionaire

Attributions Think of the word “attribute” Attributions when we try to explain our own behavior and the behavior of others. What do you notice about the results of our attribution scales?

Fritz Heider & Attribution Theory Theory on how & why people choose particular explanations of behavior Situational Cause Dispositional Cause Behavior caused by outside forces He must have gotten stuck in traffic Behavior caused by personality, comes from within us. He is irresponsible!

How we explain someone’s behavior affects how we react to it. Effect of Attribution How we explain someone’s behavior affects how we react to it.

Problems with Attribution Fundamental Attribution Error- tendency to overestimate dispositional causes and underestimate situational causes in others. They are stupid losers. Actor-Observer Bias- tendency to focus more on situational causes in explaining our own behavior. I am a victim.

Fundamental Attribution Error Teacher- that kid is so lazy and doesn’t care about anything! Student- I work 30 hours a week to help support my family

More Attribution Problems Self-Serving Bias- We attribute our success to personal/internal factors but attribute our failures to situational/external factors. Hindsight bias- tendency to, after learning the outcome, to believe we could have predicted the outcome

Hindsight Bias “I knew that Asian kid would be valedictorian! “I could have told you she’d meet a creepy guy on the Internet.”

Situational or dispositional Attributions? A teen crashes the car. One parent says it was because of the slippery road. Another says it’s because he wasn’t paying attention to driving. One parent uses dispositional attributes; the other uses situational attributes.

Cognitive Dissonance How did that survey make you feel? Why did you feel that way? Cognitive Dissonance Theory- when our attitudes and behaviors don’t match, we experience emotional discomfort.

Dealing With Cognitive Dissonance Change Behavior I’ll never cheat again Change Attitude Cheating isn’t wrong Rationalize/Justify The teacher stunk- I had to! You have a belief that cheating on tests is bad. But you cheat on a test!!!

Cognitive Dissonance The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognition) are inconsistent. For example, when we become aware that our attitudes and our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes.

Festinger and Carlsmith 1957 Those told to lie for $1 felt cognitive dissonance, had to change attitude to feel better. Those told to lie for $20 didn’t feel dissonance, didn’t have to change their attitude.