Psychology 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, Confirmation Bias
6 Apr 2016
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Chapter 3: social cognition: thinking about the social world. How do schemas guide the way you thinking about the world around you. Can exist for people, places, events, or other stimuli. Schemas are formed on the basis of experience. Priming to activate a schema through a stimulus. The way a schema is primed affects our attention and processing. How do schemas guide the way you thinking about the world around you (contd) Activated schemas affect how we process incoming information. Information that supports a schema is attended to. Information that contradicts a schema may be filtered out. A stereotype assumes that all members of a group share some common feature. Once a schema is formed, it is hard to change. It may be difficult for people to let go of these types of schemas. Predictions that cause themselves to come true.
