PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Cognition, Belief Perseverance, Intelligence Quotient
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Cognition: how we perceive, remember, and interpret information. Social cognition: how we perceive, remember, and interpret information about ourselves and others. Often biased by expectations, needs, and feelings. Perceptual readiness: perception is influenced by expectations, needs, and wishes of the perceiver. Coins seem bigger and closer to poor people. Thirsty people see glasses of water as bigger and closer. Students from each school watched the same video of game. Conclusion: each team found their own team to play fair and the team to play dirty. Indicated the number of infractions from other team. Individual filters and interprets new information in light of pre-existing knowledge and expectations. Seeing a red dot in front of apple trees = the red dot is an apple. Most things are processed by top-down processing. Schemas: mental frameworks that bundle knowledge together in an organized way. Guided by the present stimuli (what you are currently seeing)
