PSY 274 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Confirmation Bias, Emma Watson
14 Aug 2018
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A body of knowledge an individual has in his or her memory. Idea of what something should be like that you draw from in your memory. People like saying someone is a librarian (something in your mind makes you think this cognitive representation is triggered to think this) Social groups (saying something is catholic mental representation of those types of groups) Situations (walk into a restaurant and you have a good idea about what to do in the restaurant) We have this because the social world is overwhelming. Cognitive representations serviceable, but inexact solutions (system 1 making a snap judgement then moving on) Once you have a cognitive representation, every part of the way you contrue that information is being influenced by the fact that you have a picture of that representation in your mind. Think about taking a librarian or jock on a datetwo different cognitive representations you would think about.
