PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intelligence Quotient, Social Cognition, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Key premise: the human mind has a limited capacity to process social information, as a result, people are cognitive misers , we take shortcuts to understand our world. Schema: a mental structure that helps people organize knowledge about a stimulus, makes the world more predictable (we know what to expect) Self-fulfilling prophecy: something that happens when we, have an expectation about what another person is like, which, influences how we act toward that person, which , causes that person to behave consistently with our original expectations. Recap: we are cognitive misers, schemas help us make sense of the world, but they can lead to important biases, they influence how we feel and what we do, they can be self-fulfilling. Heuristics: mental shortcuts that people use to make judgments quickly, though sometimes inaccurately, for decisions about uncertain events. Representativeness heuristic: the tendency to judge the frequency or likelihood of an event by the extent to which it resembles the typical case.
