SOP-3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Representativeness Heuristic, Fundamental Attribution Error, Fidel Castro
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Key word: social cognition, self-fulfilling prophecy, dispositional inferences, situational inferences, fundamental attribution error, heuristic, availability heuristic. We think manipulation will be different for some people is an example of person interacting with situations. 2nd attention study deals with more sexually restricted inclination and sexually unrestricted inclination: results were people who had a more accepting view of casual se and primed to think about sex paid extra attention to attractive faces. Memories can directly contribute to new judgments through active recall of a previous situation. Memories can indirectly influence impressions and decisions by affecting attention and interpretation processes. Try to maximize understanding of environment while also conserving our resources. Expectations is a schema about a particular group. Ex: seeing a person with a resting bitch face and you automatically assuming they are mean so you talk to them in a rude way. The person will then be less nice to you because you weren"t nice to begin with.
