PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13.2: Social Perception, In-Group Favoritism, Contact Hypothesis
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Social-cognitive psychology: a fusion of social psychology"s emphasis on social situations, with cognitive psychology"s emphasis on cognitions. Researchers study the cognitions that people have about social situations and how situations influence cognitive processes. Corresponds roughly to conscious thought, are deliberative, effortful, relatively slow and generally under our intentional control. This is our subjective inner awareness, our mind. Comprise our unconscious thought; they are intuitive, automatic, effortless, very fast, and operate largely outside of our intentional control. These two processes work together to regulate our bodies, update our perceptions, infuse emotional evaluations and effect how we think and self-reflect. o o. They are independent but can also influence one another. Dual-process models: models of behaviour that account for both implicit and explicit processes. Implicit processes dramatically illustrated by person perception, the processes by which individuals categorize and form judgements about other people. o o.
