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Social thought and Social Behaviour

ICSE · Class 12 · Psychology

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6.1 Social Perception

  • Social perception is the process by which individuals seek to know and understand other persons
  • Based on overt actions and outward appearances, we infer what kind of persons others are
  • Social perception has four basic components: non-verbal communication, attribution, impression formation, and verification
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6.1.1 Attribution

  • Attribution is the process of identifying and understanding causal factors of others' and one's own behaviour
  • Two important attribution principles: discounting principle and augmenting principle
  • Discounting principle: ignoring one potential cause when other causes are present
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6.1.2 Biases in Attribution

  • Attribution biases are errors committed while ascribing reasons for behaviour
  • Biases are mostly cognitive or perceptual in nature
  • Person positivity bias: tendency to evaluate individuals more positively than the groups they belong to
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6.2 Social Cognition

  • Social cognition is the process of observing, storing, remembering, and using social information
  • We decide what information is important and worthy of attention
  • We store information and recollect it when necessary

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Social perception is the process byAttribution is the process throughBiases in attribution are systematic errorsSocial cognition is the process throughA group in social psychology

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