PSYCH 160 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 (09-07)
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How we select, interpret, & remember info about others and ourselves. How this info influences our judgements & behaviors. Social cognition is about construals, sense-making, finding meaningful patterns. Social cognitions are what is going on in presidential debates from viewers like us - remembering certain slurs, remembering different things and taking different meanings from that. Not just about our cognizing people in the news its also every person we see! The knowledge we have around what a surgeon does, for example, is called a schema. Schema - an organized set of knowledge about a stimulus. Knowledge includes attributes associated with the stimulus, as well as relations among the attributes. Often includes specific examples of stimulus (known as exemplars - you might have had a surgeon who personifies surgeons, or thinking of serena williams when you think of tennis players) We have different schemas for different types or groups of people.
