Chapter 14 Notes for Psychology Chapter 14 Key Definitions Social psychology is directly concerned with the influence that other people have on an individual's thought and behavior Social Cognition is the study of how others perceive you and how you think they perceive you. This perception is what defines the reality for that individual. The organized set of information or beliefs that we have about a person is called a person schema Information received early tends to carry more weight in one's assessment of a person than information received later, this is called the primacy effect .
Attribution is the process of ascribing a person's behavior to a specific cause.
Fundamental attribution error is less likely to occur when people make attributions about their own behavior than when they make attributions about someone else's. This is referred to as the actor-observer discrepancy . A schema for particular groups of persons is called a stereotype . Ingroups are groups to which a person belongs. Outgroups are groups to which a person does not belong Outgroup homogeneity effect is when people perceive members of an outgroup as very similar to each other, but do not perceive members of an ingroup that way.