PSY100H1 Chapter 13.2: SOCIAL COGNITION
13.2 SOCIAL COGNITION
- Study the cognitions that people have about social situations, and how situations
influence cognitive processes
- There are two major types of processes in our consciousness:
o Explicit processes: correspond roughly to “conscious thought”, are deliberative,
effortful, relatively slow, and generally under our intentional control – subjective
awareness
o Implicit processes: comprise our “unconscious” thought, they are intuitive,
automatic, effortless, very fast, and operate largely outside of our intentional
control
o Both work together to effect what we think and do – they are intertwined and
affect each other
- Dual-process models: models of behaviour that account for both implicit and explicit
processes
- Implicit processes may process in a bias way – can help us process information
efficiently but can sometimes lead to bad biases
PERSON PERCEPTION
- The processes by which individuals categorize and form judgment about other people
- First impression relies on implicit processes, past experience – relies on schemas
Thin Slices of Behaviour
- Implicit behaviour → can be accurate and very instantaneous
- Often helpful guides to navigating our social world
- Many of our social judgement are made this way
- Nicholas Rule – UT → we can tell surprising things about people given incredibly little
information
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Other Consequences of First Impression
- First impressions have a big impact on many of our social behaviours
- Experiment – asked participants to act as jurors and evaluate evidence against a
defendant – more likely to come to a guilt verdict is if the photo shown looked “less
trustworthy”
- Self-fulfilling prophecies: which occurs when a first impression (or an expectation)
affects one’s behaviour, and then that affects other people’s behaviour, leading one to
“confirm” the initial impression or expectation
THE SELF IN THE SOCIAL WORLD
- Much of the time we look at the world through the lens of our own self-concept
o 2 important consequences
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Study the cognitions that people have about social situations, and how situations influence cognitive processes. There are two major types of processes in our consciousness: explicit processes: correspond roughly to conscious thought , are deliberative, effortful, relatively slow, and generally under our intentional control subjective awareness. Dual-process models: models of behaviour that account for both implicit and explicit processes. Implicit processes may process in a bias way can help us process information efficiently but can sometimes lead to bad biases. The processes by which individuals categorize and form judgment about other people. First impression relies on implicit processes, past experience relies on schemas. Implicit behaviour can be accurate and very instantaneous. Often helpful guides to navigating our social world. Many of our social judgement are made this way. Nicholas rule ut we can tell surprising things about people given incredibly little information. Self-fulfilling prophecies and other consequences of first impression.
