Unit 6: Social Behaviour Flashcards
1
Q
What are organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people?
A) Stereotypes
B) Schemas
A
B) Schemas
ie: working class people smoke, watch sports, drink alcohol. sophisticated people like the arts, drink wine, read books
2
Q
What are widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their own membership in a particular group?
A) Stereotypes
B) Schemas
A
A) Stereotypes
3
Q
When people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations than they have actually seen
A
Illusory correlation
4
Q
Inferences that people draw about the causes of events, other’s behaviour, or own behaviour
A
Attributions
5
Q
A
