Psychology Units 1 & 2 Social Cognition

Social Cognition & Individual + Group Behaviour

Social Cognition

How we perceive, think and use information to understand and make judgments about ourselves and others

Person Perception

The mental processes we use to think about and evaluate other people.

Physical Cues

The way people look and act

Halo Effect

To allow our overall positive impression of a person or specific quality to influence our beliefs and expectations about the person in other qualities.

Salience

Any personal characteristic that is distinctive, prominent, conspicuous or noticeable in its context and attracts attention

Social Categorisation

Classifying people into different groups from common characteristics

Ingroup

Any group that you belong to or identify with

Outgroup

Any group that you do not belong to or identify with

Attribution

An evaluation made about the causes of behaviour and the process of making this evaluation.