PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cognitive Dissonance, Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Comparison Theory
11 Dec 2016
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These are mental structures containing basic knowledge and impressions to organize what we know about the world. (people use schemas as structures to organize the things we know. We use schemas to try and understand the world around us. ) Accessibility: the extent to which schemas and concepts are at the forefront of our minds and therefore are likely to be used when we are making judgments about the social world. Self-fulfilling prophecy: we have expectations about how others will act, so we treat them a specific way, for them to react in the way we expected them to. This way our expectations come true. (here we act accordingly to our expectation of people and people react in response to this expectation, therefore confirming our biases. You see a person looking off to the side at the bus stop. You expect or assume that this person is rude and so you decide that you will not say hi.
