PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Descriptive Knowledge, Procedural Knowledge, Extraversion And Introversion
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Infant are born into one great blooming, buzzing confusion . We are always making sense of this confusion. Once you have perceived something in a certain way, it is hard to see it otherwise. Construal: people"s interpretation and inference about the stimuli or situation they confront . Our construal of social reality is a powerful determinant of our experience and behavior. Knowledge about types of people an social situation. Rules, skills, and habit for thinking and acting. Schema: a knowledge structure consisting of any organized body of stored information . The information you have about some topic in the world. Also referred to as knowledge structures" or concepts". One person supporting another (we learn patterns of interaction) When the professor walked into class on the first day, dressed in a suit and carrying notes, we knew he was our professor because he fit the schema/stereotypes of a typical professor.
