Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Perceived Control, Carol Dweck, System On A Chip

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Draw heavily on principles and concepts about social cognition that have been discovered in the years since the cognitive revolution began. In 80s, many social soc psychologists adopted the constructs and methodologies that had begun in cognitive psychology and proved to be fruitful. Social psychologists studied how people processed info about the social world. Term social cognition refers to this large movement within soc psych, and its increasingly active and influential, freely crossing the loose boundaries b/w personality and social psych. The emotional and behavioural reactions that unfold are influenced by the mental representations, or schemas, with which people interpret the objects and social situations in their world, including themselves and their own psych states as well as other people. Are important for understanding mental functioning because they are basic units for organizing info: guide what we notice and what we remember.