PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Confirmation Bias, Pluralistic Ignorance, Construals
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Social cognition: thinking about people and situations social cognition will be explained in 5 parts where each focuses on a critical aspect of social judgement: 1) our judgments are only as effective as the quality of the info on which they are based, yet the info available to us isn"t always accurate/complete. 2)the way info is presented e. g. order and how its framed. The information available for social cognition info might be incomplete, inaccurate, misleading and also sometimes the way that they acquire info affects their thinking unduly-- each of these circumstances presents special challenges to achieving an accurate understanding of others. Other participants were asked to make the same ratings, but after seeing each face for only a second, half a second, or a tenth of a second. Experiment: participants given photographs of faces and were asked to judge them.
