FRHD 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Cognition, Labeling Theory, Stereotype Threat
5 Apr 2018
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What is social cognition: how people interact. Social judgement process to form impressions of others: we make initial snap judgements of others, adjustments made later, older adults. Use less detailed information to make decisions. Serious impacts on judgement process due to decline in cognitive processing resources. More willing to go from positive to negative judgements of others. Less willing to go from negative to positive judgements of others: attributional biases. Knowledge accessibility: draw on previous experiences in new situations. Must be able to use social knowledge structures and social information. Stereotypes: negative stereotypes of older adults. Grouchy, forgetful, losing physical strength: positive stereotypes of older adults. Wise, generous, responsible: stereotypes are a type of social knowledge structure and social belief about a group of people. Impacts how we interpret new information: age based double standard. Older person forget something; more serious, get judged harder. Younger person forget something; just blame it on forgetfulness, not judged too hard: activation of stereotypes.
