[Psychology 2720A/B] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 23 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
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Chapter 3: social cognition: how we think about the social world. Social cognition : the way people think about themselves and the social world. How they select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions. No control , occurs without intention, efficiently, sometime outside awarenes. Intentional, requires cognitive resources, occurs within our awareness, you have to think about it and you know what(cid:495)s going on. Schemas are mental representations of objects or categories of objects that people use to organize their knowledge about the social world. Affects what information we notice, think about, and later remember (like a filter) Can sometimes make us misperceive the world. Mostly efficient, we have lots of schemas. You already have an idea/ script of what is going to happen. Harmful schemas- categorization of an entire group and pain them with certain traits- stereotyping. Short video of woman having birthday party. Half told that waitress; half told that librarian.
