Psychology 2070A/B Lecture 2: Lecture #2 - social cognition.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: James M Olson

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2: example: car salesperson friendly and untrustworthy. We expect him/her to smile and be friendly so we tend to notice this. We notice when they steer you toward a more expensive car. Self-fulfilling prophecy this is another confirmation bias: our expectancies from stereotypes can influence how we behave toward someone, this behaviour can influence how the other person behaves. If the elicited behaviour confirms our expectancy, this is called a self-fulfilling prophecy. 3: example: is the letter r" more common as the first letter of a word or the third. We would go with first because we categorize words that start with a particular letter. Not by the third letter, so we can more easily think of example of words that start with r than have r as the third letter (ie words that start with r are more available to us)