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What is the premise of social influence within psychology?
It is the scientific study of the way in which people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?
The tendency to explain our own and other people’s behaviour entirely in terms of personality traits, underestimating the power of social influence
What happens when we underestimate the power of social influence?
gain a feeling of false security
increases personal vulnerability to possibly destructive social influence
lowering our guard
oversimplifying complex situation
decrease our understanding of the true causes
blame the victim — when people are overpowered by social forces
What does victim blaming perpetuate?
blaming the victim instead of the perpetrator
questioning the victim’s actions
creates harmful stereotypes
discourages reporting and seeking help
prevents accountability
What is the social cognition?
The study of how people are perceive, interpret and understand the social world around them—involves mental processes; that underpin how we think about, remember, and makes sense of information to other people and social interactions
What is the social cognition perspective?
views people as amatuer sleuths—doing their best to understand and predict their social world
What are the 2 types of social cognition?
automatic thinking—quick and automatic
controlled thinking—effortful and deliberate
What is a schema?
